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...flat-faced brown stucco Spanish Embassy on the Avenue George V in Paris. But Don Manuel, who has been wanting to surrender since the Rebels took Teruel a year ago, flatly refused to leave the safety of Paris. Peace at any price was his line. General Vicente Rojo, Loyalist Chief of Staff who crossed over into France with the fall of Catalonia, also declined to go home. French and British diplomats applied pressure at this opportune time and the upshot was that Loyalist Spain at last agreed to reduce its conditions of surrender to one: that Generalissimo Franco promise...
...Loyalist General Vicente Rojo, Chief of Staff and Commander of the Catalonian Army, made his only public speech of the war: ''You can conquer more ground with material strength, but you cannot conquer the people. Even if you succeed in crushing us you could be sure that from the ruins of our cities and the bones of our dead there would rise the ideal of liberty and independence, which is fed by the blood of our soldiers...
...suddenly put on trial last week before the Leftist supreme military tribunal-not the Barcelona civil court before which P.O.U.M. was simultaneously being tried. Among witnesses called to brand Colonel Villalba as a sellout to Rightist Spain was the Chief of the General Staff of Leftist Spain, General Vicente Rojo, and its early Premier & War Minister Largo Caballero...
...salient-to-the-sea, last week hurled a whacking good offensive across the Ebro into the north flank of that salient. Shock troops for the advance were chiefly five columns of foreign Leftists, forming the spearhead of Barcelona's drive, under command of up-&-coming General Vicente Rojo. Soon wounded in the back by a bomb fragment was James Lardner, son of late Funnywriter Ring. In Manhattan, portly Leftpundit Heywood Broun announced that Ring Lardner was the only genius he ever met, rejoiced that the wounding of Son James, who writes, may force him to return...
...time when Franco and Miaja could not stand the sight of each other. On the Aragón front since last May, General Pozas has been able to: 1) bring the recalcitrant Catalans into the fight, 2) capture Belchite, and 3) hand over to his subordinate, General Rojo, the successfully prepared offensive which spectacularly took Teruel (TIME...