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But for his desire not to see [The trensures of Madrid blown sky-high there is little doubt that General Franco could take the Spanish capital row. As it is, he will doubtless prefer to reduce it by encirclemerit. Be fore the end of the year he is tolérably certain to be controller of all Spain with the exception of Catalonia,
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. These views, now represent expert opinion in all countries vulnerable from the rear with a fo directly or indirectly interested hostile Spain against us.
both France and' Italy. limi. Nor has he sent any Under Indeed, it may be said now that message to King Alfonso: in the outcome of the Spanish Italian control the Balearic the present Italian 'intrigues in an effective the Balearic Islands, which have
His only concrete action, so far the expert opinion of Moscow, block to communications between done so much to justify the as is known, was to send back whose solicitude to obtain the Gibraltar and Multa.
fears of those who 'dread a across the frontier King Alfon- Admission of the Abyssinian
Franco victory, are very largely so's son, the young Prince Juan, delegation to the Lengue of
the Italian counter-action to Phone 27778/9 Nations Assembly in Genera was
who came to enlist in the Franco French intrigues with the largely influenced by the 1311- In the event of war we should Catalonians to secure the control
forces. The general's antece- palatable belief that the Spanish be immobilised in the Mediters of the Balenries for themselves, dents are to some extent reassur- Government will soon be in the ranean, and shut off from the Because of the threat of her ing, same homeless position as that Suez Canal and the shortest own communications with her declares himself to be à
He was and, I believe, still of Haile Selassic.
con- route to India: The Canary African colonies, France cannot, firmed Republican. If we assume that this pre- Islands lie right across our line and will not, under any circum showed his Republican sympa. And he diction is correct, we must ask of communications to the East stancen allow the Italians to ourselves what consequences its via the Cape. The house and establish a naval base in these thies at the time of King fulfilment may involve for centre of the Empire would be islands. Britain.
It may be taken for granted that he has no wish to put.
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Thersday, Nov. 5, 1936.
A TRIUMPH FOR DEMOCRACY
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left with only its Atlantic back- There are many people who door through which to food
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Alfonso's abdication.
The suggestion that France himself outside the orbit of other of the British Empire. Already formation
It is an alarming prospect, and
of
friendships and other combina- Triple would
tions. The tumult and the turmoil been hints and in
n the foreign Press there have Alliance composed of Italy, Ger- -untenable because the general, caused by the United States
cases many and a Franco-ruled Spain who poses
the national It is true that the British positive assertions of A presidential election have ended,
secret might very easily lead, in the saviour of Spain. cannot afford Empire has little to gain either agreement between with Mr. Franklin D. Roosevelt Italy, and the Provisional Goy- of war, to some similar arrange. Spanish unity which he has set victory in Spain. But of two Germany, event of war or even of a threat to abandon the principle of from a Left victory or a Right again triumphantly returned as ernment of the Spanish Generals, ment. the nation's Chief Executive.
himself to restore. He will evils à Franco victory may wel! By the terms of this alleged The result accords with general agreement Italy is to receive the mitted, prevail mainly among makes it his last objective. And the Left could hardly fail
These views, it must be ad- attack Catalonia, even if he prove the lesser. A victory of expectations. K is welcome. When President Roosevelt, as- Balearic Islands and Ceuta and men whose business it is to muin- he will find it his stiffest obstacle, create serious repercussions in sumed office, he was faced with Germany the Canary Islands as tain the freedom of our commu. If he surmounts, it, he has still France, and any further weaken problems of abnormal magnitude the reward for the supplies of nications and to call attention to to establish order and to restart ing of France's power at the and complexity. During his in-money and munitions which they any combination of circum- the economic machinery of present moment right have a cumbenes of White House, he has have furnished to General Franco stances which may threaten it. everyday life in a country which disastrous effect on laid the foundations of a
and his colleagues. order. A span of four years is
new
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the fragile They may be said to represent is geographically
most stability of European peace. extreme views dictated by a regional in Europe. He may For no axiom is truer than that *
natural anxiety for our security. also have to reckon
his weakness is the chief temptation bringing of his policies to full
These views are wide-spread.
Against then may be set the brother generals, and all history, to all war-makers. fruition. He now has the op- They are valuable propaganda views of other experts who are and Spanish history in particu portunity of making good; by his for the Spanish Government, accustomed to regard the whole lar, proves that generals are Achievements in his second term of Quite recently Mr. Lowell aspect of foreign affairs in prone to fall out with each other office he will be judged by history. Thomas, the well-known Ameri. broader outline. Here a dis- over the spoils of victory, We
In this obscure and difficult The qualities which have won Mr.
between tinction is made
the are still not even within sight of situation what is the answer of war-correspondent, in can Roosevelt re-election are
--
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crude to regard the alleged secret have called the extremist view agreement between Italy, Ger- of the danger. And the answer many and the Franco-ites as an is to be found in the statement. ̈established ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ fact. There is which Sir Samuel Hoare made on nothing in the character of his return from his tour of Signor Mussolini, who is a realist inspection of our Mediterranean
to show that he has ever been ituntion to his own advantage, always ready to exploit every forces.
I read in that statement un preparel to carry his various unmistakable warning to Spain flirtations with Germany to the and to all other countries that Britain will not tolerate any infringement of the status quo in the Mediterranean. Op- timism regarding the future will Nor, apart from the fact that me justified only if we have a he is not yet in a position to Britain strong enough and re-
point of an actual betrothal.
IF BOMBERS CAMER
We have been informed from time to time of these schemes to protect us from sudden gas attack, but we what has really been achieved.
It has been stated officially that the total cost of providing enough underground shelter in London and
within
"striking dis- other cities Lance" of an enemy air feet would be about £70,000,000.
power, his unquestioned integrity Minister of the Spanish Govern, While it is admitted that the the view that it is altogether too those who do not share what i and, above all, his deep sincerity.ment, as his authority for quot fall of Madrid is merely a ques. His opponent, Governor Landon, ing then. They are shared by tion of weeks, there remains the an equally sincere if less able man, a number of people in high question of Catalonia. [lacked many of the qualities of
true leadership, and his chances of authority in this country who see in this arrangement some- success were undoubtedly co- pardised by the largely negative thing akin to a death-blow to There are those who maintain character of his party's appeal. They believe-and they claim to abandon Catalonia to its own our Imperial communications. that General Franco is prepared He certainly does not possess the personality of the great national that their belief is based on Bolshevist fate. Such a solu- figure who has won re-election, reliable knowledge that this tion is both undesirable, and In his handling of the innumerable secret treaty exists, if not on untenable. It is undesirable be problems which have called for his paper, at least as a gentleman's cause, in whatever way the attention, President Roosevelt has agreement.
Spanish crisis may end, a run- shown a happy sense of downright If there is any vestige of truth ning söre in Catalonia would direction, coupled with more than in these suppositions, the dan have the worst possible effect on a suggestion of reliance on the gers involved can scarcely be the body politic of Europe. national will. True, his some exaggerated. Ceuta is opposite An independent Catalonin give away Spanish territory, is solute enough to implement the what radical policies have Gibraltar, which would also be would be a constant temptation there serious ground for believ- full implications of that warning. at times surprised some of his friends, who had re- garded him RY a Liberal Conservative. But, once set on a course which he deemed right, he was never deficcted from the pur- pose he had in view. The sabotaging of the New Deal was to him a great disappointment and added to the worries of office in its domestic aspect, involving big issues of the Federal Govern-1 about this poison gas, business. WANT to know something more ment's authority over State rights This does not mean that I want to which will have to be faced in the read more scare stuff about gas, near future.
discussion As Mr. Roosevelt more diffuse
ns to the himself has pointed out,
preparations of this or that country under for its use in warfare, or the hearsay existing conditions the Govern- reports of what our Government is customers with effective gas muskes ment is deprived of much of its doing to defend us from gas attacks, at 28. control over national and economic I have read almost everything that conditions..
has been published along these lines, Definitely against and 1 um still dissatisfied. The In fut contradiction of these cheap the domination of big interests, alleged "experts" who have written and comforting premises we have We have loosely understood that President Roosevelt has stood as on the subject from a dozen dif- an entirely. different and truly wise and parental authorities would the champion of the people. Heferent points of view have contra- alarming, set of statements which in due course invite us to attend have achieved equal prominence. classes where we should be ẞtted out
BLISTERING GAS has knocked up against hard dicted each other bewilderingly.
On the question of gas masks, for One says that a really efficient gas with gas masks and taught how to economic facts in his efforts to example, there is the widest dif- mask costs £19 104. and must be put them on
Blistering gases, as they are called, In a split second. give them a square deal, but he ference of opinion. The other day constantly supplied with охудел
penetrate ordinary clothing a casily the kind has yet as they would gauze. Obviously no Nothing of has pursued his
unit was stated that the Air Bald Pre-from a cylinder at a cost of £1 108.
materialised. The project of furnish-gas" mask con afford protection deviatingly, often in the free of cautions Department of the Hame for two hours.
with Ing everybody Office had placed an order for more Another statement puts the price teaching them gas drill is still very escaping
masks and against them. The only hope of villification and of misrepresenta- than 30,000,000 masks, which, as of an efielent
effects 3 to be tion. Some of the social reforms, fast as they could be manufactured, tween £10 and £15, and reminds
much up in the air.
awathed from head to foot in gar- The fact that the Government is ments made of specialty chemico- he has instituted, such as old age would be sold to the public at 23. Od. buyers that to ensure protection for pushing on its gas defence arrange fised fabric which will not let these pensions, unemployment insur- cocb.
a period of three hours will cost 208, ments with all possible speed indi-gases through. ance, and child and maternity by two weeks,
Forestalling the Government plan more f for oxygen.
cates that it regards the air menace #atore announced
Where the gas-proof overcoats are welfare, will always be associated that it would soon be ready to supply experiments by the Air Ministry at
Crowning all comes the nows that as a reality.
to be obtained, I have not the faint- with his name. In the sphore of
The Air Raid Precautions Depart est idea. I do not even know Beverley, Yorkshire, have proved ment is working at express speed, whether they are actually in exist- foreign affairs, Mr. Roosevelt has day higher in his country's estima- that no gas mask yet devised affords evidently contemplating a sudden ence, or whather it simply means tried hard to save the world from tion and in that of the liberal real protection against the most emergency. Plans are said to be in that pieces of specially treated cloth economic madness and has ever minded elements of all nations
deadly gases known.
existence lo evacuate 1,000,000 have been exposed to the acllon of been on the side of peace, holding than
Soldiers were sent into a chamber people from conicated areas in Lon-blistering gas and survived the the view that politicians, and not guidance, the United States should not forced to run this risk,
ever before. Under his with their gas masks. They were don within 24 hours of an outbreak ordeal.
every of war.
It is wrong that we have not been peoples, are largely responsible for in the coming years find a way out extra pay for "dangerous service." veyed with a view to the provision mation regarding the position of cur:"
man being a volunteer and receiving The whole country has been sur, furnished with clear and full infor war. A man of high purpose, of most of the major problems They passed quickly through the of underground shelters. In all the air defences. fearless and upright, he stands to- with which the nation is heset. chamber, being exposed to the gas' big cities for use during air raids.
Charles Pilley..
course
for only three seconds. When they emerged their 'features torted into an expression of agony,
were con-
going to look like if one day we have
In
What Would
the Government prepared to as if they had worn no minsic. Do? Civilians
No doubt these men were supplied spend this amount of money, or is it with the most costly and efficient gas that it has given up all hope of pro- true, as is persistently rumoured, masks in existence. What are we
on shelter for more than a tiny fraction of the people?
Other problems, do less ticklish, are confronting the air defence ex- perts. There
are types of guses whose action, which is peculiarly deadly, affects not, the respiratory organs but the skin.
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