"Visual Evidence"

Rightist Spain last week staged an exhibit of captured, foreign-manufactured guns, tanks and airplanes in the sumptuous Grand Kursaal Theatre of San Sebastian, Spain's beautiful Bay of Biscay summer resort. The exhibit showed brand-new, up-to-date arms, including a 1938 Russian anti-aircraft piece, Swedish anti-tank guns, warplanes of Russian and Czechoslovak manufacture.

Partly as comic relief, partly to prove that Leftist Spain's munitions agents had been hoodwinked into paying out good Spanish gold for outdated equipment, the show also included a 3-ton, 6-in. cannon, mounted on a high-wheeled carriage and an old Winchester rifle. The cannon, worthy of a museum, was manufactured at Obujov. Russia in 1864. The Winchester, with the date 1860 still visible on its barrel, was the type used by U. S. frontiersmen in the Indian fighting of the 18705.

Prize exhibit of the display, however, was a live Soviet tank driver who drove in his 15-ton tank from the Leftist People's Army into the Rightist lines and surrendered. Obligingly the proletarian soldier demonstrated his death-dealing machine to an aristocratic audience which included German Ambassador Dr. Eberhard von Stohrer, Italian Ambassador Count Guido Viola di Campalto, Papal Nuncio Mgr. Gaetano Cicognani. Opening the exhibit was short, blond, blue-eyed General Count Francisco de Jordana, Rightist Spain's Foreign Minister and Vice Premier of the Franco Government, more & more looked upon as Rightist Spain's No. 2 man. The Count orated: "In this extravagant display of selected specimens of captured war materiel you have visual evidence of the extensive foreign aid that the Marxists have been able to purchase abroad."

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