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Front No. 4. Below Toledo, for a full 150 mi. along the rolling hills of Estremadura to Mérida, again no formal line exists, but there is no unofficial truce here as in the similar sector to the north. Cavalry raids and guerrilla fighting are an almost daily occurrence. Only a shortage of men on both sides prevents Rightists from consolidating their line properly, keeps Leftists from a forceful drive through to Badajoz and the Portuguese frontier which would break Rightist communications between Franco's capital at Salamanca and the important southern strongholds of Seville and Cordoba...
...Popular Front took power, and politically about as Red as U. S. Senator Carter Glass. Since the beginning of the war he has been a voluntary exile in Paris. Last week he promised allegiance to the Negrin Government, brought three other conservative Deputies with him as a sign of truce between the Popular Front and Centre Right Republicans...
...proof" that there is a Capitalist league against the Soviets. In Paris the present Chautemps Cabinet of the Left was again rocked last week by a fresh severe fall of the franc. With the Paris Exposition drawing to its close, wiseacres expected an end to the "political truce" France has observed all summer for the benefit of tourists, a sharp struggle between Left and Right with wide repercussions for which European statesmen last week were preparing as best they could...
What critics chiefly noted, aside from, an extremely wide range of merit, was a truce in the bitter factionalism which has characterized Chicago art since modernism first burst upon it in 1913. No one was heard of who refused to contribute because an enemy was represented, and painters with grim sociological messages did not stand off in a corner and poke fun at the "Sanity in Art" school, which was in evidence with scads of wholesome snowscapes, landscapes, seascapes. Of abstract paintings there were only two. Geographical range was all the way from The Ninth Hole, Park Ridge Golf Club...
Significantly the Sung-Kazuki "verbal truce" as it was called, came just as the Nanking censor passed this Associated Press dispatch: "A survey of trustworthy information today indicated that the Chinese Central Government was making no real military dispositions to fight Japan in North China...