Word: italiane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Keystone of the Anglo-Italian negotiations was Italy's pledge to withdraw her troops from Rightist Spain, at which time the agreement would go into effect. This seemed "realistic" indeed at the time. Day before the pact was signed Rightist Generalissimo Franco's troops planted their flags on the shores of the Mediterranean and both Chamberlain and Mussolini were convinced that further Leftist resistance would be short-lived. But the Leftists refused to quit. And the thing that gave them most heart was the arrival of at least 200 new planes, presumably from Russia (see p. 16), besides...
Fortnight ago, faced with a report from Generalissimo Franco that additional support was needed to quash the Leftists, pugnacious Premier Mussolini blurted out in a speech at Genoa that he could not guarantee success for the French-Italian conversations because in "the war in Spain, we are on opposite sides of the barricades." Before agreement could be reached Italy demanded, it was reported: 1) that France close her borders to Leftist supplies* and thus probably permit a Franco victory; 2) that France discard her military alliance with the Soviet Union. Possibly for bargaining purposes, he was also said to have...
...back at Mussolini and behind each of his moves shrewd French observers could see the heavy hand of the French general staff. The French military clique, alarmed at the reports of German batteries emplaced in the Pyrenees along the Spanish frontier, German air bases at Burgos and Vitoria, and Italian occupation of Majorca, has now become more concerned about keeping open the frontiers to Leftist Spain than French Leftist workers...
With events at this crucial stage, Prime Minister Chamberlain moved quickly to save the Franco-Italian agreement from complete discard and to save his own Italian pact from collapse. In Rome British Ambassador Lord Perth called on Foreign Minister Ciano, urged him to continue the talks. In London, the Earl of Plymouth was instructed to call the moribund Committee on Non-intervention into session this week. There Britain will propose that France close her Pyrenees frontier to supplies for a 30-day period, while the committee reaches an agreement on the withdrawal of foreign fighters from both sides. Last week...
...Rightist Spain is to tread softly without stepping on the toes of Rightist Generalissimo Franco. Last week, safely perched on British Gibraltar after a six-week journey from end to end of Rightist territory, New York Times Staffwriter Harold Callender filed his first detailed dispatches on the German and Italian forces operating in Franco Spain...