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"Social ideas did not get to the peasants," they argued, "because they cannot read or write, but now they can all listen."
On the fourth and fifth floor of I. T. & T.'s Madrid skyscraper building are the offices of the Spanish Government's press censors. There, ever since the revolt has started, foreign correspondents have flocked to have their stories red penciled, send them out over the one telephone line open to the outside world. When last week correspondents took time off to explore the rest of the building, they found none other than President Sosthenes Behn marooned in his own office by the civil war. The only way Mr. Behn had been able to reach his wife in St. Jean-de-Luz was by telephoning Buenos Aires, having the call switched from there back to France.
This week's features in Spain's civil war were hurry-up efforts by South Rebel General Franco to take Madrid with his Moors, and the apparent inability of North Rebel General Mola to save from especially bloodthirsty Red miners the besieged garrison in Oviedo, commanded by especially bloodthirsty Colonel Aranda who, in 1934, butchered many a Spanish proletarian. Snarled the miners' Red leader: "We will get Colonel Aranda if we have to get him over the dead bodies of our own children!" Actually no children were involved, miner experts at dynamiting merely setting up a catapult from which they hurled homemade dynamite bombs against the walls of Oviedo.