One evening two years ago a bored United Press night man in Paris picked up a buzzing telephone to hear his London office calling. "Our subscription call from Spain hasn't come through," London told Paris. "We can't raise Madrid. Will you try?" A few minutes later the Paris international operator reported: "The Spanish operators don't answer."
That was on July 18, 1936. Five days earlier Europe had been warned of the extent of unrest in Spain by the murder of Monarchist Deputy José Calvo Sotelo, onetime Finance Minister, at that time head...
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