Evening star., 1937-09-19
SPLIT OVER SPAIN
LOOMS IN LEAGUE
Hostile Forces Gather for
Airing of |o-Reich
Accusations.
BACKGROUND


Spanish cipil pdr marked BY as
sistdnce OF Italy and Germany for
Gen. francisco Franco, Fascist
leader, and Russian reinforcement,
NTH Ddr supplies, OF the Loyalist
government at Valencia. Spain has
appealed to the League against the
'Joreion inuasion" BY Germany
and Italy, demanding that they be
conpicted as nggressors and
sanctions applied.
Other 1ews OF the European
crisis will be found on page Al.
Es the Associated Press.
GENEVA, September 18.-The
League Of Nations Assembly headed
tonight toward bitter division on
charges of German and Italian in
vasion" in Spain's civil war.
The Spanish government Premier,
DR.. Juan Negrin, set the stage for
m open airing OF the controversy.
He termed Premier Mussolini and
Chancellor Adolf Hitler international
highwaymen" and demanded that the
League force an end to their Inter
vention" on behalf OF Spanish insur-
gents.
His resolution asking that the ques-
ton be submitted to the League Politi-
cal Committee paved the way for
bringing the controversy to the As
sembly floor.
There Italy and Germany, although
not represented themselves, will keep
in touch with delegates sympathetic
to insurgent Generalissimo Francisco
Franco. Government of Spain is cer-
tain of Soviet backing.
Litvinon to Speak.
Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim
Litvinoff, whose government has ac-
cused Italy of piracy" in the Medi-
terranean, announced his intention to
speak on the issue.
Negrin placed before the Assembly
a flve-point program which he asked
the League to adopt. 1t demanded: !:
That the League recognize German
Italian" aggression against the Span
ish government; that it examine q
means Of putting an end to this ag-
gression"; that foreign volunteers be
withdrawn from the Spanish conflict,
and that the Spanish government
have the right to acquire freely neces-
sary war materials.
The most important demand, how
ever, called for extension to govern
ment Spain of the measures Of Sc
curlty" adopted in the Mediterranean,
and Spanish government participation
in the measures.
This reference was to the nine
power 'anti-piracy" patrol of the
Mediterranean, which excludes both
government and insurgent Spain from
its protective arrangements.
New Text Distributed.
As Negrin made his demand the text
of supplementary nine-power anti
piracy" accord was being distributed
The new agreement includes "acts OF
piracy by surface vessels and air
craft" in the scope Of the international
feet originally set up to combat SUBJ
marine attacks on shipping.
AS In the original agreement, gov
ernment and insurgent Spain were
excluded from regions under protec-
ton of the feet.
League circles tonight heard re-
ports that Mussolini might "stiffen'
his Spanish policy because of the
anti-piracy accord. These reports
caused new tension when coupled
with French Foreign Minister Yvor
Delbos' apparent warning against such
course.
Press Defies Britain, France.
ROME, September 18 @.-Tht
controlled and authoritative Fascis
press tonight. printed defiance o.
Great Britain and France as the sec.
ond Nyon agreement, to attack pirate
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