Francisco Franco, again busy over staff maps with his big soft pencil, directed last week the Rightist recapture of Teruel, bloody "Spanish Verdun." Inside this little city, Valentin Gonsalez, a picturesque Leftist Army leader known as El Campesino ("The Peasant"), was busy dynamiting such civic buildings as were not already in ruins, while the 20,000 Leftists holding Teruel clung grimly to their posts.
"House-to-house fighting is the enemy's style, not ours," General Franco told correspondents. "That is just what they want, but we are not going to oblige them because we can always...
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