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Success with Spain. The same "Tammany" forces which failed to exclude Ethiopia last week had been simultaneously applying pressure to prevent the Madrid Cabinet from formally demanding that the League Assembly take action about the munitions now reaching Spain's White Armies contrary to the declared embargo of the Great Powers (TIME, Sept. 7 et ante). Possibly because Madrid is now also beginning to get such munitions, Geneva success was achieved by those putting the pinch on Spanish Foreign Minister Julio Alvarez del Vayo. While he could not be persuaded to keep quiet, his empurpled and highflown Latin oration...
...Spain last week (see p. 19). the British and French lobbied furiously in efforts to prevent Spanish Foreign Minister Julio Alvarez del Vayo from asking the Assembly of the League of Nations to do something about Portuguese-German-Italian aid to the Spanish Whites and about the Great Powers embargo denying arms to Madrid. In a Geneva newspaper article signed by Portuguese Foreign Minister Dr. Armindo Rodriguez de Ittau Monteiro, he strongly hinted that if Madrid by any chance won the Spanish Civil War its Reds would next have to fight Portugal...
...Berlin one morning last week, brisk and rich little French Ambassador Andre François-Poncet was invited to the Wilhelmstrasse, cordially received by large and wealthy German Foreign Minister Baron Constantin von Neurath, and handed a most welcome communication. This was Germany's formal adherence to the embargo prohibiting arms shipments to Spain (TIME, Aug. 17) which was originally proposed by the new French Cabinet of Socialist Premier Léon Blum, promptly accepted by Britain and belatedly agreed to fortnight ago by Italy. After a beaming exchange of compliments, the French Ambassador hurried off to flash...
These activities of the Great Powers, plus the rounding out last week of the French-sponsored international embargo on arms shipments to Spain by the adherence of Germany, made Madrid Bigwig Prieto angrily conclude that evidently the White forces in Spain enjoy the covert sympathy of London and Paris as well as the candid sympathy of Rome and Berlin. "I cannot understand why France and Great Britain can be so blind!" cried Indalecio Prieto. "How can they envision with pleasure the establishment of a Fascist regime in the west end of Europe? What will they say if General Franco wins...
...present Neutrality Act exempts from the embargo on arms, munitions and implements of war (1 American republics at war with non-American states, 2 Great Britain 3 France and England, 4 Liberia, 5 a nation attacked by another...