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Last Chapter? In Spain this week the U. S. diplomatic mission at Barcelona was packing up to withdraw toward France. The main force of some 60,000 Spanish Rightists under General Juan Yague, advancing toward Lérida, "the Key to Barcelona," found themselves briefly balked at the Cinca River. The People's Army had blown up all bridges for 50 miles along the Cinca to cover their retreat. Wading chest deep through the icy waters, the 60,000 Rightists crossed at Fraga, which had just been reduced to shambles by 160 Rightist bombers. Pontoon bridges were then flung...
General Franco's great push from behind Belchite went forward all week long. Objective was to reach the coast and split Catalonia off from the rest of Leftist Spain. The Rightists at latest reports had held Caspe against nine Leftist counterattacks. Leftists figured they had blocked any immediate Rightist advance via Lerida upon Barcelona, where Rightist bombers had slain over 1,000. This week Rightist artillery was pounding ahead of Rightist thrusts toward Gandesa, which is the junction point of two highways to the sea. Rightist planes were furiously bombing Tortosa and many other towns up and down...
...began, have since been living expensively but safely in embassy and consular premises of the French Popular Front Government. Into Barcelona harbor suddenly steamed last week two French warships, the Epervier and La Palme. These took off the Marquis de Urquijo, the Duke of Saragossa and 510 other Spanish Rightists, many robust young men of aristocratic Spanish families who appear to have been living like fighting cocks, despite the acute food shortage in Leftist Spain. With typical Spanish braggadocio they announced, on landing in France, that they were at once proceeding by rail to Rightist Spain to enlist under General...
...teamsters elected volatile John F. Dore Mayor of Seattle over a pleasant Scandinavian councilman named Arthur Bernard Langlie. Seattle has since suffered from Dave Beck's vigorous assaults on the rising C. I. O. So by the time this year's municipal primaries rolled around, a rightist revolt was in the air. Mayor Dore sought re-election backed again by rough and ruddy Boss Beck and the A. F. of L.'s Lieut.-Governor Victor Aloysius Meyers, onetime jazzband leader who had enlivened previous candidacies with promises of hostesses on owl street cars and flower pots...
Three columns under Rightist Generalissimo Franco last week staged in central Aragón the widest offensive of Spain's 20-month-old war. During the first six days the Franco forces, behind the largest aerial concentration the war has seen, advanced along a 60-mile front, extending from Fuentes del Ebro southward to Montalban, recaptured Belchite and gained approximately 1,350 square miles of Leftist territory. Some 3,500 prisoners were taken, the Rightists announced, including 400 U. S. citizens of the Leftist Abraham Lincoln Battalion. At week's end one Rightist column was only about...