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...right to blockade, one of the "belligerent rights" now being hashed over in London (see col. 1), was reported last week planning to establish a naval blockade of the Leftist coast, appointed Vice Admiral Francisco Moreno Fernández to be Commander in Chief of Rightist naval forces in Majorca. This made correspondents unquenchably curious to visit the island of Majorca, often rumored to be in Italian hands...
While French and British diplomats fenced with Italy last week on the problem of withdrawal of foreign volunteers in Spain (see above), French and British staff officers had deliberated a situation even more critical in the Balearic Islands. Secret agents at Palma, Majorca had noted unusual activity among the Rightist garrison and the 20,000 Italian troops quartered there, reported that an attempt was about to be made to seize the Leftist island of Minorca. The British and French have been thick in the western Mediterranean ever since the Spanish civil war began, and the New York Times was authority...
Slantwise across the Mediterranean lie the 15 Balearic Islands, of which three-Majorca, Minorca and Iviza-are large enough to show even on small scale maps. For over 200 years, Britain has cast hungry eyes on these islands that parallel her lifeline to the East, and in 1708, during the War of the Spanish Succession, Britain actually captured Minorca, held it on and off for over 50 years and held Majorca almost as long. Three years ago it was no secret to European war offices that British firms and British military engineers were said to be building vast fortifications around...
...fact that Premier Benito Mussolini's second son Bruno had arrived with 23 brand new Savoia-Marchetti S-79 B's, considered among Italy's fastest and best bombers, on the Island of Majorca (TIME, Oct. 11), caused this Rightist base to be furiously strafed last week by three flights of Leftist bombers from Valencia...
...Franco controls but two, could not possibly be responsible for all the "pirate" attacks in the Mediterranean in recent months. Germany at present is anxious to stay in Britain's good graces. Almost every foreign observer agreed last week that the pirate submarines must be Italian, based at Majorca, Genoa and Sicily...