The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-12-26
LONDON, PARIS
plan loan TO
help GERMANY
See Way to Win Nazi Neu-
trality by Stablizing
Domestic Affairs
1G GERMAN PLANES
LANDED in SPAIN

ThNlo, bcS' So. 10
today submitted drastic new
plan to the powers to tighten en-.
bargoes on arms, men and money
and going to Spain. The state
ment of the plans pointed anew to
the dangers of an international
explosion from aid now being CIV
en- openly. 1t was understood that
both France and Great Britain
are ready to aid Germany fnan-
cially If Hitler would agree to
stop sending men to aid the Ma
tionalists. But if Germany contin.
ues to give this aid France reserv-
es the privilege TO aid Loyalists.
French anxiety is increasing be-
cause of the reports Of foreign
ships bearing arms for both ARM
les are arriving daily in Spanish
ports. .-r
Twenty foreign planes, includ-
ing ten German ones, have landed
in Spain in the past two days.
LONDON, Dec. 26. (UP)-The
British government learned last
night that, DESPITE its impending
non-agression pact with Italy, il
cannot prevent Premier Benito
Mussolini from aiding the Spanish
Rebels.
Italy was said to have baked at
British efforts to extract new
pledge that there will be no Fas-
cist aid sent across the Mediter-
ranean to Spain.
The Information that Britain's
efforts to enforce "hands off"
policy in Spain have failed
brought grave fears that the Civil
War may overflow its boundaries
and embroil the nations of Eu-
rope in another great war.
Diplomats, their cheer Of the
Christmas season darkened by
fear Of war, speculated Of what
effect Mussolini's action might
have on Chancellor Adolf Hitler
Of Germany.
Hitler, in q snowy Christmas
setting high in the Bavarian Alps
at Berchtesgaden, debated the
choice he must make under an ul-
timatum from France and Eng
land.
If he gives in to the pleas Of
General Francisco Franco, the
Spanish Rebel dictator, to send
100000 German troops into Spain,
he will precipitate an open breach
between the Reich and the two
European democracies.
II he breaks away from Franco
on whom he has gambled so heav-
ily, Germany will receive Franco
British economic aid to overcome
dire conditions in the Fatherland
where citizens are on wartime
food rations.
But to abandon his Spanish en-
terprise would be q severe blow
to Hitler's prestige.
England's pending negotiations
for a pact of friendship and nom
aggression with Italy, soothing
suspicious in the Mediterranean,
was designed to drive wedge be-
tween the two Fascist nations.
BY winning over Italy to the
Franco British policy Of strict
non-intervention England hoped
to isolate Hitler in his champion
ing Of the Spanish Rebels.
But, now that the plan appears
to have miscarried, many diplo-
mats wondered whether Hitler
might not find fresh encourage
ment for open aid to Franco-un-
doubtedly insuring the Rebel gen.
eralissimo an early victory.
Mussolini appeared to be conf
dent of bringing about q reconcile
iation with Britain as a step to-
ward a new Englo-Italian entente
without abandoning a reputed
Fascist plan-a concert Of Hitler
and Mussolini-to throw Gordon
around Republican France.
France has warned gravely that
If Hitler sends Nazi troops into
Spain she may abandon her neu-
trality policy and 60 to the aid Of
the Loyalists.