[Homer_J_Simpson]

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[The_Media_never_lie]

The communists in Spain were destined to lose big time to Franco’s fascists. Not good for the common man.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Here is another installment of one of the less popular continuing stories on these threads (along with the war in China). I wonder if the civil war sold many papers in 1938-39 or did the Times just give it such extensive coverage for political purposes. It seems from the sidebar stories that there was great popular sentiment in the U.S. on the side of the Spanish government. I wonder if that is true.

I'll bet developments in Poland will begin to generate some interest here:

"[O]n January 25 Ribbentrop was at Warsaw to continue the diplomatic offensive against Poland. The absorption of Czechoslovakia was to be followed by the encirclement of Poland. The first stage in this operation would be the cutting off of Poland from the sea by the assertion of German sovereignty in Danzig and by the prolongation of the German control of the Baltic to the vital Lithuanian port of Memel. The Polish Government displayed strong resistance to this pressure, and for a while Hitler watched and waited for the campaigning season."

Winston Churchill, The Gathering Storm, p. 306

[PAR35]

Looks like the usual liberal denominations coming out in support of the Communists.