 President Manuel Azaña made the well-publicized comment that all of the convents in Madrid were not worth one Republican life.Yet equally commonly cited, for example, is the speech by Socialist leader Indalecio Prieto on the Madrid radio on 9 August 1936 pleading that Republican militiamen not to "imitate" the murderous actions of the military rebels and the public condemnation of arbitrary "justice" by Julián Zugazagoitia, the editor of "El Socialista", the Socialist Party newspaper, on 23 August.Julius Ruiz goes on to note, however, that "not cited... are "El Socialista"'s regular reports extolling the work of the Atadell brigade", a group of Republican agents who engaged in detentions and frequently murders of (in the end) up to 800 Nationalists.