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...always happens after a big defeat, the fall of Bilbao caused the routed Basque and Asturian forces to be given a unified command, under General Gamir Uribarri last week. He thus had some 110,000 men wherewith to defend Santander, a larger force than that of advancing Rightist General Jose Fidel Davila, but markedly inferior in munitions and warcraft. Leftist propaganda declared: "Basque prisoners are marched through the streets of Bilbao taunted and in degradation." Rightist propaganda announced: "In Santander 15,000 rioters have seized Government buildings and proclaimed a Communist Libertarian Republic...
Denying that he or any of his ministers had fled to Santander last week, Basque President Jose Antonio de Aguirre summoned newshawks to his office, handed out copies of a document addressed to the "Presidents of All Democratic European and American Nationals...
...from the positions they held at the time of the armistice, when Paraguay had pushed into 50,000 sq. mi. of the Chaco. This has seemed as natural to Paraguay's Provisional President Colonel Rafael Franco as it has seemed intolerable to Bolivia's Provisional President Colonel Jose David Toro, both professional fire-eaters who got into power by convincing their respective countrymen that the exhausted governments which signed the armistice had betrayed them...
...giving the strongest politician on the Leftist side, onetime Bilbao newsboy Indalecio Prieto, sole charge of the War, Navy, Air and Munitions Ministries. For the first time in the Civil War, all the reins of defense and attack were thus in the hands of one man. Spunky General Jose Miaja ("The Savior of Madrid") reassumed civil and military control of the capitol after a four-week interregnum by a Civilian Council. The reinstatement of Miaja, famed for his valor and firmness, was a popular, shrewd move...
Chief upshot of the long-drawn war for the steamy Gran Chaco between Bolivia and Paraguay was that in both Republics the constitutional governments were overthrown, replaced by tight little military- fascist juntas. Last week in La Paz the Bolivian junta headed by excitable Colonel Jose David Toro capitalized on the scare that its overthrow was being plotted by Standard Oil Co. (N. J.). To President Toro, as that shrewd politico had foreseen, came prompt reassurances from the Government-organized syndicates of workers, miners and railway workers pledging all their strength to fend off any such attempt...