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Some 1,500 grim-faced prisoners in the Rightists' San Cristóbal fortress at Pamplona, 30 miles from the French border, suddenly attacked a few of their guards, connived with the others, and last week succeeded in executing a mass jailbreak. In a few days, posses of Rightist Civil Guards rounded up 600 fugitives, killed scores more in clashes in the dense thickets of the Navarre border territory. A few prisoners managed to escape to France and there revealed that many of those who took part in the escape were not Leftist prisoners of war but Rightists, members...
Meanwhile, from behind Rightist lines last week came the report that many U. S. volunteers captured earlier in the war had been summarily shot without trial, most of them by grizzled, hard-boiled Legionnaires of the Tercio de Extranjeros (Spanish Foreign Legion). The Legionnaires, all Spaniards but part of the Rightists' Moroccan army corps, are Franco's shock troops and thus frequently bang up against the U. S. and foreign fighters, shock troops for the Barcelona Government. The Italians, more lenient with their captives, were reported to have insisted on a Rightist guarantee that U. S. and other...
...nephew Hipolito Cedillo and eleven more agrarians, observers agreed that Boss Cedillo may have waited too long to be able to put on a large-scale revolt. But the Boss was still hoping for the support of five unnamed Governors to help him put over a national Rightist revolt. Late last week his wife, his four daughters and his brother-in-law motored to the U. S., temporarily settled in Texas...
...Mexico City remains one Rightist stronghold defiantly independent of the education ministry-the National University. It is the oldest university in North America. Its students, traditionally conservative, struck again and again until in 1933 they won complete autonomy from the Government, plus a Government endowment of 10,000,000 pesos. The Government regrets every penny of it. When three years ago the university complained its income was inadequate, President Lazaro Cardenas tartly advised it to stop being an enemy of the State...
...clock one morning last week several hundred young men filed silently into the university buildings, barricaded doors and corridors. By daybreak enraged Rightist students found their university had been taken over by the United Socialist Youth of Mexico. When Rector Chico Goerne arrived in his office, the Socialists marched him out again. The Rightists charged at the doors, clambered up walls, were driven back by revolver shots. The Leftists held the buildings all day. One student lay dead and five injured when Government police finally smashed in, arrested or dispersed the Socialists, recaptured the university for the Government...