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The Ducal Wedding - General Mola - And the "Strategy" ncre were many features of . of Stalin last week's news which invited
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comment, not the least significant being lac attitude of the news- the clever twist, intended to conpapers towards the Ducal wed- vey the impression that Mola's ding. A dangerous internation- army destroyed Trull: whereas al crisis arising out of the Span- the truth is that the Reds wanish Civil War was claiming two tonly blew the town to pieces beto three columns daily ; suddenly fore they fled. The "West Austhe Spanish news dwindled to tralian" continues: ".Alone among less than half a column, with the insurgent commanders, he small headlines., and the large maintained his reputation." and headlines were claimed by the then lightly refers to the explodlast unimportant sordid details oi ed "Guernica horror." How, or a "romance" between the King's why. or where all the other Nabrother and a twice-divorced mid- tionalist leaders lost their "redle-aged American woman. The putations" we are not told, and parson who blessed the union it would be interesting to have a now finds himself not only fam- few details of this tremendous ous, but also wealthy. This is scandal. t ypical of our "News- service. Mola's adherence to the Na- News-value" and variety carry tionalist cause was significant. ,ar more weight than sincerity He was a Republican and a Basand truth, and the last drop of que. But he realised sooner sentimental gush is squeezed out than did other Basques and other of the most unworthy episode. Republicans the real purpose bew hile more worthy subjects arc hind the Popular Front, and he deliberately pushed into the back-. was quick to repudiate the Communist leadership of the Republicans. General Mola is dead. His The bombardment of Almeria leath was hailed with a paean of us with a few reflecprovides savage joy from the Reds. The tions. The stories of horror (5/6137) uses Australian** - \\-(:st carnage can be discounted And he . .,:casion to remind us of because, evidence of the on the Mola's part in "the fall and dethe place was themselves. Reds note Please -.truction of Irtm." shelled for half an hour only. This could not do a great deal at damage. if. as is unlikely, the shells wers aimed at the most populous parts of the town. But it is much more likely that the city fortifications WCIT the objective. Here is an interest:ng- examplQ of the use of quotation marks 2/607) : ("West Australian. "The question would . seem to be —has German 'honour' been satisfied'?" It is difficu!t to believe that the quotation marks themselves came by cable, and the inference is that irresponsible persons are put into responsible The leader on the positions. same day uses the occasion to The preach to the Germans. w riter refuses to believe that the Red Government authorised the.
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bombing of the German battleship, and then hurries on to say that anyhow the Germans thoroughly deserved it and that they Then had no right to hit back. eight instances are given of acts bv Germany and Italy calculated The to exasperate the Reds. \yr:ter forgets to mention that there is not the shadow of proof forthcoming for even one of these accusations; that they ,are merely propagandist reports circulated by the Reds, on the same scale as the repo-.- t t admitted by the "West" to be a lie) that the British (lestroyer, which struck a mine recently had in reality been torpedoed by an unknown xvarship. The writer of that leader is completely out Gf touch with reality. Anyone cai see that the t)rogramme of the Reds from th--r start has been to cause a general war, and that GeE m any and Italy are determined to prevent this The avowed plan of the Comintern is to cause a Nvorlil war and convert it into a civil Nvar every country except Russia. (Contintizd foot column 4, Back Cover
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