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FROM CAMP TO COUNCIL

The Issue

Both from the standpoint of fulfilling promises (in the Treaty of London) and from that of staying off trouble in the old ways to Formed and reared as a fight-be said for France and Britain

of diplomacy, there is much ing machine, the Franco dicta- making a settlement with Mus- torship in Spain seeks now to solini before he announces terms govern, and military imperatives which they cannot accept. His re give way to political. For the luctance to announce such terms. process of war itself has solved indicates his own weakness nothing..

and according to him nothing General Franco to-day con-counts but force. Yet he is be fronts the same stubborn pro- coming desperate. And in West- blems of bringing à backward ern Europe there is no room for country into the modern econo-] such adventures as Il Duce's part- mic and social age which plagued ner has been indulging at the the Republic and the Monarchy other end of the axis. before him. The chief difference]

There is little "give" around. is that the conflicts over social the Mediterranean, consequently and economic power have been more danger of a general conflict transferred from the floor of the from any reckless move. Probably parliament to the council cham- there is both more immediate ber of the dictatorship. Also, be-need and more hope for appease- cause of the cost of war, one of ment in that area than in the the poorer countries econmically east. But by this time it has speaking has been still further become clear that appeasement impoverished.

cannot be piecemeal or one-sided.. There are those to-day who There must be some assurance of profess still to believe in a Clau-a general settlement, instead of, sewitz' celebrated maxim that a concession which will lead war is a continuation of policy.quickly to others and to increas- But surveying the profit-and-ed uneasiness. loss statement of the Spanish civil war, it becomes-more evid-such a settlement is still hoped In the realm of power politics ent that in this age, war is only for by the diplomatists.

.

But

a postponement of policy. The others must have their doubts Spanish nation must still solve about the amount of apeasement with the intelligence what is fas-possible between the democratic cistic revolutionaries could not ideal and Fascism. When Musso- solve by the sword.

The Franco regime now offers "exact antithesis of all other con-

lini says that Fascism is the. a fascistic doctrine as a solvent. ceptions of contemporary civilisa- Resistance, so the argument runs, tion" the boast should give all can be burned out like the here- who understand the basic import- tics of an older time. And as ance of mental differences cause. for economics, it is said, surely to think.

the world has seen that the fas

cist "new economics" has not col-

lapsed, as its critics from the The Third Button school of free economy have too. freely predicted.

That depends. The force of Master Tailors announced recent- The Association of London Italian and German influence is ly that two buttons instead of certainly not to be underestimat-three should now be worn on the ed. But in Spain, there is no such jackets of men's lounge suits. massive stratum of a despairing The Association is an authoria- middle class to give the fascist tive body, and it cannot be denied rank and file element its power. that it has taken the button from The Falange Espanol, which re-its foil, as well as from its jac- presents the "brown shirt" ele-ket, and delivered a shrewd ment, will not find it as easy as thrust at the self-esteem of all. other national socialists to chal-three-button men. lenge the old order. And as for If they do not give a button, political repression, the German their status will be marked as and Italian fascisms are hardly plainly as is that of the Chine a conclusive pattern.

For although the women are hat; and unlike the mandarin, mandarin by the button in his more sheltered the men of who supports his dignity by put- Spain, taken by and large, have ting his hands in his sleeves, few illusions about tyranny. They they have lived under it and struggled

achieve a like effect against it for generations. The we purge is a commonplace of Span Ishchistory: DN NG

The liberal strain in the Span- ish nation has therefore been

struggle for informed, well the techniques.

Broadcloth

heart with

in their sult.

utton'd

hout, and

to keep his chin up.