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...Barcelona, officials of Spain's Leftist Government confirmed last week that recent Rightist victories in the Teruel sector (TIME, Feb. 14) "completely eliminated the spearhead" which Leftist forces previously drove in north of Teruel. Rightist officials said their troops had recaptured an area twice as great as that taken from them by the Leftist offensive which took Teruel (TIME, Jan. 17, et ante), but the Rightists last week had not recaptured Teruel itself...
Describing the Rightist drive, partially under his command, General Juan Yague told correspondents at captured Peralejos, eight miles from Teruel, ''The operation was the same bolsa or 'pocket' maneuver we used to such good effect throughout our northern campaign and at Brunete last summer...
...southern Spain, Leftist mountaineering troops launched an offensive at an altitude of 5,000 feet in the snow-crested sierra, said they had killed 1,000 Rightist mountaineers, captured strategic heights above Granada...
...humanly possible, every Sunday and every holy day. Six years ago the Congregation of Sacred Rites ruled that this religious duty cannot be fulfilled by listening to mass by radio. Last week Pope Pius XI found reason to suspend this rule. He granted permission to prelates in Rightist Spain to broadcast mass, so that Catholics in Leftist Spain, where there is no public worship, need not be deprived of religious service...
...utterly crude, super-blatant "chats" Radio Queipo has probably done ten times more harm to the Rightist cause than any Leftist propagandist. He is a typical, swashbuckling Spanish braggart of the old school, whereas the Rightist President is a serious, close-lipped cogitator of current Fascist theories of government. Francisco Franco started out with soldier simplicity to create simply a "Government of Order," last week obviously had not fully made up his mind what form of state Spain ought to have. If the potent British friends of Franco should have their way, and if he should win, Spain would...