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...Leftist International Brigade General Emilio Kleber, has seriously handicapped the defender of Madrid, General José Miaja. For the recent Saragossa-Teruel offensive 200,000 men were assembled, 200 planes, nearly 1,000 trucks. This, the most elaborate Leftist offensive yet attempted, was handed over to General Sebastian Pozas, a greying, hollow-eyed officer who looks more like an Anglican bishop than a soldier...
...both sides. At Irún on the Rightist side the Spanish frontier was hermetically closed. Rightists explained : this was to prevent details of the advance on Santander leaking out to Leftist agents. Leftists explained: this was to keep news of new anti-Franco insurrections from the world. San Sebastian, theoretically completely calm since September, was reported the scene of one outbreak. Leftists reported that their scouts had heard firing behind the Rightists' lines not in one but several localities. The reason generally given was bickering between the Spanish regulars and their Italian and German allies. Since friction...
With the quashing of the Anarchist riots and the formation of the more efficient Negrin Government at Valencia, a drastic effort was made to get Barcelona to bear its share of the fighting. Up from Valencia to take control of Barcelona's military came greying, hard-bitten General Sebastian Pozas, ordered to instill a little efficiency into the Barcelona Government and to try to get a few Catalan soldiers into the trenches. Last week came startling news: General Pozas had finally taken the field at the head of a new army of 200,000 Catalans, and some...
...raid came, but before peace was restored over 300 people had been killed and according to reports the Valencia Government, to police Barcelona, had had to withdraw 12.000 badly needed troops from the Aragon front. Heretofore careful to avoid mixing in local Catalan squabbles, Valencia also moved in General Sebastian Pozas to be military commander of Catalonia...
...program consisting of works of John Sebastian Bach will be presented by the Wellesley College Choir and the Harvard College Glee club on Sunday at 7:30 o'clock in the Houghton Memorial chapel at Wellesley. 70 men and 90 girls will participate. The program will consist of The Magnifieat and the Kantata No. 190, "Singet dem Herrn". Soloists for this performance will be: Jean MacDonald Haddow, contralto; Joseph F. Lautner, tenor; and Daniel Harris, baritone. Mr. Carl Weinrich will accompany on the organ...