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Fresh from his war coverage in Leftist Spain quiet, hard-working Vincent Sheean, Left-wing author & correspondent, fortnight ago hurried to Vienna to scout reports of disaffection against the four-month-old Nazi regime. In a series of articles in the New York Herald Tribune last week Mr. Sheean gloomily summed up his investigations. "The impression made by ten days of observation of the new Vienna is that National Socialism has a firm grip on the life of the place and has come to stay. Terror reigns throughout the population and nobody dares give a plain answer to a plain...
This figure, calculated Correspondent Sheean, includes some 12,000 Roman Catholics, an additional 5,000 to 6,000 members of Ernst Rudiger Prinz von Starhemberg's Heimwehr, several hundred aristocrats, thousands of workers, trade-union leaders, Social Democrats and Communists, 20,000 Jews and 450 Austrian Nazis "purged" fortnight...
Meanwhile, in Barcelona, Author-Correspondent Vincent Sheean took advantage of the lull to get off a few fresh observations on the 22-month-old war. Most striking thing about the war to Sheean, who reached Spain only two months ago, is its incongruous combination of ultra-modern and primitive methods. The ultramodern: "Newfangled bombs, thermite, delayed-action fuses and the like, which are capable of greater destruction than any bombs hitherto used in war." The primitive: "There are no proper trenches anywhere [with the exception of those outside Madrid]. The ditches and ravines in these dusty clay hills take...
...Leftists' International Brigades, some of which lost three-fifths of their men and most of their officers in the Aragón retreat, are now reformed for service in the Catalonian, northern half of Leftist territory, reported Sheean. The 15th Brigade, which includes the U. S. Lincoln-Washington battalion, the Canadian and British battalions, is now commanded by a Croat, Colonel Chopic. Its political commissar, John Gates, is a little soft-spoken union organizer from New York. "The Americans in the brigade are about 75% to 80% Communists-a much higher percentage than in other brigades. In the British...
...general impression," concluded Sheean, "is that Italy and Germany will have to make a renewed effort, a further expenditure of men, money and material, if they hope to win this war. The resistance of the Spanish [Leftist] people is incalculable. The very babies raise their clenched fists in the air against the foreign airplanes...