Demi-Anniversary
About 120,000 non-combatants had been butchered and about 80,000 combatants had fallen in the Spanish Civil War up to last week, when it reached the gory tombstone of its first-half year.
"This correspondent for one," cabled the New York Times's Herbert L. Matthews from Madrid, "would not be surprised six months hence to see himself seated before the same typewriter in the same place writing a summary of the first year of the war. . . . All Europe has been drawn into the conflict and there has been a mass uprising more...
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