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THE TEST IN SPAIN Up to the signing of the Munich agreement there were two potential causes of war in Europe Czechoslovakia and Spain. The Czechoslovakia dan- ger has been liquidated, simp- ly by letting Herr Hitler work his imperious will. Britain and France, at the eleventh hour, decided that the fate of the Sudetenland was not an issue on which they could make an armed stand against the totalitarian challenge, even if their ability to check the rule of force at any later date should be perilously weakened by the surrender of the Bohe- mian frontiers,

The ultimate cost of the deser-

tion of the Czechs remains in- calculable. The immediate de- bit may be reduced if the Munich pact should lead to an honest attempt to remove some of the urgent sources European unrest.

[Spain offers the first test of the efficacy of the new diplo- macy and of the sincerity of the dictatorships. Behind the sham facade of non-interven- tion foreign Powers have vio- lently participated in the civil war. Upon the ravaged Span ish soil and upon the flesh and blood of the Spanish populace they have tried out the wea- pons designed for use in the world war which soo nearly happened last month. German anti-aircraft guns have been tested against Russian planes anti-tank guns have been mea spred against new types of

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In the case of Germany, it may

well be that t the Nazis think

they have achieved their pur- poses, one of which was to create a new front for France to defend in the event of war resulting from a German drive against Czechoslovakia. France, having declined battle, and the disintegration of Czechoslova- kia having released many Ger- man divisions for the defence of the Western front, the Nazis no longer have the same need to embarrass the French. General Franco would have been an invaluable, though perhaps an involuntary, ally if a Europ ean war had found Germany and Italy ranged against Brit- ain and France, but he has shown an aversion to being cast in that role, and his in- creasing resentment of foreign tutelage, with his continued inability to destroy the Re- publicans, threatens to exhaust the patience of his backers. Politically, the Nationalist lea

der has been placed in an awkward position by the Gov- ernment's bold stroke in dis- missing its foreign volunteers. This decision, which was an- nounced at Geneva at the height of the European crisis, was at once a gesture of con- fidence in the strength of the Republican cause and avowal of its purely Spanish character. It has left Franco as the sole beneficiary of for- eign intervention, has re- doubled the pressure on him to free himself of associations which, compromise his regime in Spanish eyes, and has. strengthened the hands of Britain and France in seeking the withdrawal of the Italian levies under the non-interven- tion. plan. Recently Rome announced the evacuation of Italian troops who have been in Spain for a continuous period of 18 months. This "substantial withdrawal" was described in the communique as an efficient contribution to the establish- ment of international faith, "besides satisfying the desires expressed by the Non-inter- vention Committee," and so it has been accepted by Mr. Chamberlain.

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The Anglo-Italian agreement was the first-fruit of Mr. Cham- berlain's personal intervention in foreign policy. It has re- mained in cold storage so long as to be threatened with de- terioration. Of its joint auth- pra, Signor Mussolini has... al- ways been the more anxious to have it come, into force. Despite his protestations of un- dying loyalty to Herr Hitler, he must have misgivings re- garding the enormous expan- sion of power at the other end of the Rome-Berlin axis, which balances across the Brenner, and he would be glad of the opportunity of reinsurance with Britain and France. His problem is to reconcile his need of an Anglo-Italian rap- prochement with his desire for the victory of General Franco. There ought to be no British compromise on this question intervention. The foreign volunteers must go from Spain: if that unhappy country is to find

tanks; and Italian aviators have improved their accuracy in dropping bombs under wai conditions on trenches, cities, and ships. Foreign legionari ies on either side, but "pre dominantly on that of the re, beli, have striven desperately The fun in the Iberian cockpit, sind vers At last there are signs; not only 23,

that Braniaro are tired of bo- ing batchered by foreigners, but that sh

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