Scandal No. 2

While the P.O.U.M. affairs (see above) have been Scandal No. 1 in Leftist Spain, there has also been the affair of Malaga. The Leftist commander of the defenses of this rich Mediterranean port--taken in February 1937 by the Spanish Rightists with great swiftness and ease--was Colonel Jose Villalba, who has been sitting in prison ever since. He was suddenly put on trial last week before the Leftist supreme military tribunal--not the Barcelona civil court before which P.O.U.M. was simultaneously being tried. Among witnesses called to brand Colonel Villalba as a sellout to Rightist Spain was the Chief of the General Staff of Leftist Spain, General Vicente Rojo, and its early Premier & War Minister Largo Caballero.

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