SPAIN: 'Doing Wonders

Spain's civil war was nearly two months old but Madrid had only just been able last week to get the Government's armed proletariat organized with enthusiasm around 66-year-old Premier Francisco Largo Caballero ("The Spanish Lenin") and in a very real sense the Government had "just begun to fight."

Angry because Russia has sent not a single Red Army bomber to aid them, 17 newly organized Socialist and Communist battalions about to leave for the front last week paused in Madrid to adopt this startling resolution: "Stalin has deserted to the Fascist...

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