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Neville Chamberlain's political future largely hangs upon one problem of the war-the withdrawal of Italian forces from Rightist Spain, upon which the inauguration of his Anglo-Italian Pact is contingent. The British public, however, is growing more & more concerned with another problem-the continued bombing of British ships in Spanish waters by Rightist planes. Since the war broke out two years ago, 55 British ships have been attacked. Nearly half of these have been damaged or sunk by Rightist Generalissimo Franco's air force in the last two months. Making political capital out of British resentment...
...Barcelona, Foreign Minister Julio Alvarez del Vayo called in French Ambassador Eirik Labonne, warned him that if the French and British continued to do nothing to stop Rightist bombing of Leftist cities Leftist Spain would start a system of reprisals. Employing the usual vague diplomatic language, canny Foreign Minister Alvarez dropped a hint that Leftist warplanes would bomb "places from which the raiders come," might concentrate on "distant objectives...
...beauty of diplomatic language is that it can be taken several ways. Particular beauty of Minister Alvarez's wording was that "places from which the raiders come" can mean a number of places. Well known is the fact that many Rightist bombers have come from Italy, that a large proportion of Rightist aviators are Italians. Also well known is the fact that the principal Italian air base in Spain is on the island of Majorca. Big question of last weekend's war scare was whether Leftist Spain was threatening to bomb Italian cities like Genoa (400 miles from...
...troops of Leftist Spain's "Lost Division" into France. There, French police took their customary secret poll of the refugees to determine to which side of Spain the men wanted to return, then herded them into trains for the border. Only 980 voted to go to Rightist Spain; the remaining 8,820 elected to return to Leftist territory. Arriving at Gerona, the first contingent of the "Lost Division" received a rousing greeting from Spanish Leftists led by Foreign Minister Alvarez del Vayo...
...French Parliament, Communist and Rightist deputies howled at each other over the question of aid to Leftist Spain, were prevented from fistfighting on the Chamber floor only by a hastily formed wall of old-soldier ushers. Speaker of the Chamber Edouard Herriot suspended the sitting twice to restore order and next day Premier Edouard Daladier adjourned Parliament until November, thus freeing his hands to do as he likes without parliamentary interference. Reported moved to the Spanish Leftist border as a frontier patrol were 30,000 Mobile Guards. Then came the official announcement that no longer would France allow munitions from...