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Only one last road from Madrid to the sea was open last week, the 294-mile railway to Valencia. Having cut off the Capital from all other avenues of succor or escape, the White Armies of Generalissimo Francisco Franco were advancing with such vigor that Premier Largo Caballero and his Cabinet were daily rumored, via Rebel sources, on the point of flight. Disciplined effectiveness suddenly appeared in the roving mobs of Premier Largo Caballero's proletarian militiamen. These have fought bravely enough time and again, but too often only in their own good time and place. This week they...
Exactly one hour after the League Assembly had voted to lift Sanctions from Italy and refuse succor to Ethiopia, Herr Greiser marched into a session of the League Council and with calculated insolence of manner addressed in German the luckless Council President, British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden whose handsome young face was soon beet-red. In unprintably coarse language Herr Greiser attacked Mr. Lester to his face on personal grounds and demanded a free hand in Danzig for Nazis to administer their brand of "law and order...
...psychologies, both British and Italian, new First Lord Sir Samuel had spectacular "sham battles" fought at Malta during the week. Simulating Italian bombers, British planes droned over Malta for three hours. On land antiaircraft batteries belched sheets of flame. British first-aid squads dashed about the streets pretending to succor the imaginary wounded, this bit of realism being frankly copied from Germany and Japan...
Until his "Baby Bonds" could be sold, M. Auriol turned for temporary succor to the Financial Oligarchy, obtained from the Regents of the Bank of France an overdraft of $10,000,000 on which to keep his Treasury going for the moment. Socialist Auriol said he will not take the franc off the gold standard, will not nationalize but only "reform" the Bank of France and will not fail to balance the Budget...
Italy's conclusive victory in Ethiopia. British discouragement with the League of Nations and with Franco-British co operation last week (see p. 23) saddened M. Blum. In his Le Populaire he blew a valiant bugle blast of succor...