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...five states last week in Spain's "Little World War," as diplomats were now calling it. During the week journalists of the French Radical Popular Front, which supports the Cabinet of Socialist Premier Léon Blum, launched daily rumors that German troops were arriving in Morocco at Ceuta, only 14 miles across the Straits from Britain's Gibraltar and "within canonading range''. In London these rumors had galvanic effect. The nervous Duke of Windsor's nervous intimate friend, British War Secretary Alfred Duff Cooper, who has said in a public address that he considers...
After M. Daladier had received Mr. Duff Cooper and the Englishman had read in virtually the entire French press increasingly alarming reports of "Blond Moors" (Germans) at Ceuta, he was reminded at the French Foreign Office that not only the Treaty of Versailles but many another bars Germany from Morocco. Simultaneously a French Foreign Office spokesman, not permitting himself to be named, told correspondents that "France will go to any lengths to protect her interests in Morocco!" To Morocco soon will go M. Daladier and generals of the French...
...Spain, outside the harbor of Ceuta, the Government warship Jaime I was preparing to resume its hit-or-miss bombardment of the Fascist rebel forts. Suddenly smack into range moved the most efficient warship in the world for its size, the German "pocket battleship" Deutschland. The Jaime I canceled her bombardment. Later came reports that the Deutschland had landed munitions for the Fascist rebel troops, that her captain had paid a "courtesy call" on the headquarters of Rebel General Franco. Eight German warships were in Spanish water last week, ready for anything...
...than another boost for Fascism. All over Europe the same rumor was being spread last week. In return for Italian backing and Italian munitions, Spanish Revolutionist Francisco Franco had promised Benito Mussolini to end Spain's present alliance with France and to give Italy the right to fortify Ceuta, opposite Gibraltar, and to use one of the Balearic Islands as a naval base. The Spanish Fascists were a long, long way from victory last week, but if they should succeed and if there were any truth in this rumored deal, Britain's control of the Mediterranean would...
...Franco Bahamonde deserted his post on the Canary Islands, hastened to Melilla, took charge of some 20,000 rebellious Legionnaires, regulars and Moorish native troops. Within a day the rebels controlled all Spanish Morocco, a 200-mile strip of coast across from Gibraltar. When they began broadcasting from the Ceuta radio station, pretending to be the Seville station, announcing the surrender of Madrid to the rebels, sympathetic Army garrisons throughout European Spain joined the revolt. They were defeated in Barcelona and Seville but seized the southern ports of Cádiz and Málaga for a landing...