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...first anniversary of the assassination in Madrid last year of Rightist Martyr No. i, onetime Finance Minister Jose Calvo Sotelo who was taken-for-a-ride by uniformed guards of the Madrid Government. Its head then as now was President Don Manuel Azana who last week was in Valencia. Few days after the Rightists mourned Calvo Sotelo, they celebrated with bullfights and fiestas last week the day on which they rose against Republicans, Socialists, Anarchists and Communists of Spain. Last week British-owned ore mines near Bilbao (now Rightist) had taken from them the first shipload of ore dispatched...
...Spanish Leftists made his flying visit to Paris fortnight ago, passionately imploring aid (TIME, July 12). the canny French General Staff reputedly urged that he test and prove the present fitness of Spain's Leftist militia by ordering a full-scale offensive. Last week Premier Negrin, at Valencia, was at the controls of a Leftist offensive which sent 30,000 militia rushing out of Madrid in heroic, bloody efforts to dislodge decisively the besieging Rightists...
...recognized to be so desperate that Leftist Premier Dr. Juan Negrin and his Foreign Minister Jose Girál Pereira piled into an airplane, flew to Paris and appealed in strongest terms to new French Premier Camille Chautemps for any and every sort of aid, then flew back to Valencia...
Spain's Leftist Government last week staged intensive hunts for Rightist sympathizers and spies in Valencia and Barcelona, discovered in cellars and hideaways a total of some 3,500 bombs. "We shall be inexorable toward [Leftist] cowards and defeatists," announced the Government. Britain and France the Government characterized as "cowardly democracies which watched unmoved the savage destruction of a sovereign country [the Basque region] and which tolerate that cynical neutrality patrol which only serves to insure for foreign Fascism immunity for transporting its armies of ruffians...
...efforts this week to cut the Madrid-Valencia highway, Rightist Italian tanks grappled with Leftist Russian tanks along a 15-mile front in what Madrid radio called "the biggest tank battle since the World War." Madrid complained that the Rightist air force has been "doubled" by recent arrivals of Germans and Italians, declared that 15,000 more Italian soldiers had just been landed officered by members of the Italian General Staff. Meanwhile seven German warships left their anchorages in Portuguese waters (see map, p. 15), steaming past Gibraltar into the Mediterranean, where they were joined by the Admiral Graf Spee...