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...volunteers, made up of Russians, Italians, French, Germans and Poles. From among Madrid's refugee-swollen population of 1,500,000, there were last week more than 50,000 actively defending the capital. General Franco's White Army totaled not more than 40,000. According to neutral observers "the Red militia will soon number twice as many as their opponents...
...figure of international law masquerading in some strange costumes, but none so exotic as that it wears in the present situation. The fact that in any civil conflict the recognized government has always been free to receive the implements of self-defense from abroad has been disregarded by the "neutral" countries on the grounds that Madrid was Lestist. It is convenient to forget that at the beginning of the revolt the Spanish government was a liberal republic, which swung toward Communism only under the tragic necessity of self-defense. President Azana, who still refuses to flee the burning house...
...week from his temporary capital at Valencia President Azana of the Spanish Republic made another plea to the democratic countries of the world to come to the aid of Spain. He remarked that although while Madrid was held by the Loyalists Great Britain and France, along with the other "neutral" nations, would give that city no aid, he expected a different situation to prevail in the event the capital fell into rebel hands. President Azana lacked imagination. Now these self-styled "neutrals" will not have to wait until the defenders of Madrid are routed. Recognition by Germany and Italy...
Last week, inspired by current campaigns to collect money for cancer-prevention studies, Dr. Little blazed up: "It has always seemed to me a great pity that some neutral and properly qualified laboratory should not make a very simple test of the correctness of Miss Slye's hypothesis concerning the recessive Mendelian inheritance of all types of cancer. If the matter could not be tested easily there would be some excuse for continuing the publication of contradictory evidence...
Briefly, Dr. Little asked Dr. Slye to give, loan or sell to some neutral institution a herd of male mice which she would certify as having no tendency to cancer in their makeup. Then he would give 1,000 of his cancer-susceptible female mice for breeding at a neutral institution. Children of those matings would be bred, brother to sister...