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Year ago, the 1,650-ton Spanish Leftist destroyer José Luis Diez limped into Falmouth, England, seriously damaged by Rightist air bombs. Most of her crew of 60 left the ship, claiming that they would be shot as "Reds" if they returned to Rightist Spain, as "deserters" if taken back to Leftist Spain. A loyal skeleton crew took her to France for repairs, and fortnight ago the José Luis Diez was again ready for action...
...resolution," adopted unanimously by the 27 nations of the London Non-intervention Committee after 24 months of quarreling and petty dickering, was in effect a plan to ease international tension by getting foreign soldiers out of Spain. Before the elaborately painstaking plan could be carried out, Spain's Rightists and Leftists had of course to accept. To tempt them into agreement, concessions were tentatively offered to both factions. Held out to Rightist Spain was the plum of belligerent rights which would legalize a blockade of Leftist Spain's ports. For Leftist Spain was a tempting offer...
Last month Leftist Spain accepted the plan with only a few minor reservations.This week Rightist Spain told Great Britain that it too ''accepted the principle" of withdrawal of foreign volunteers. But larded into General Franco's "acceptance" were so many Rightist complaints, demands, objections, charges and refusals that, in effect, it was almost a flat rejection...
...status because: 1) he possesses more territory than his enemy; 2) he maintains a sovereign government; 3) he has an army and air force organized to guarantee order. Charging that vessels have taken contraband munitions into Leftist Spain with Non-Intervention Committee observers on board, General Franco complained that Rightist Spain is now denied the right of search on the high seas, that she is hampered by a list of contraband imposed by the Committee. He complained also that only those foreign volunteers of nations represented on the Non-intervention Committee would be withdrawn under the plan, leaving the volunteers...
Like Tennis Player Baron Gottfried von Cramm who talked too much about his political opinions while touring the world, General von Fritsch, who opposed sending German aid to Rightist Spain and more than once told Hitler that Germany is not yet sufficiently prepared to fight a war, was smeared by accusations of homosexuality. Whereas Cramm was sent to jail, Fritsch, of a size too big to jail, merely had to resign as head of the army (TIME...