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...Gibraltar last week the Rightist Government sent an official announcement that El Caudillo Francisco Franco has expelled from Rightist Spain Francis Xavier Charles Marie Anne Joseph, Prince of Bourbon-Parma, Carlist pretender to Spain's vanished throne...
...Leftists' sudden reversal of policy was brought on by three days of the bloodiest Rightist bombing which Leftist cities have suffered since the destruction of Guernica. Over the sea from Majorca came a squadron of black-winged Italian bombers. High over Barcelona they loosed enormous bombs on the crowded, industrial and residential sections of the city. In five minutes over 400 men. women & children were killed, many of them literally torn in fragments, and twice as many were wounded...
...almost the same time Valencia's crowded tenements were bombed almost as severely. Leftist Defense Minister Indalecio Prieto claimed this was a Rightist "attempt to assassinate" seven British Laborite M.P.'s who had been visiting Valencia's law courts, were on their way to a luncheon at the officers' training camp. The nearest bomb fell at least a quarter of a mile away, but the Rightist's radiorating Queipo de Llano soon made priceless Leftist propaganda by bellowing that the British Laborites are "Marxist scoundrels and a pack of savages whom we will punish...
Giant Negro Singer Paul Robeson drove from France to Barcelona, Spain. Purpose of his visit: to go to the front lines, where a huge loudspeaker will throw his voice, during a lull in fighting, to Leftist and Rightist alike...
Directly traceable to the Leftist victory at Teruel, however, was a wave of desertions from the Rightist Army. At Gibraltar, foreigners were able to see evidence of it with their own eyes. All week long the Leftist consul at Gibraltar went about with pockets stuffed with cash like a racing bookmaker. In driblets, two and three men at a time, Rightist deserters arrived, some in rowboats from Algeciras across the bay, some by land from La Linea across no man's land to neutral ground. Back & forth to British police headquarters went the consul to pay the small fines...