The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-08-23
SPANISH WAR IS
 THORN IN EUROPE
Britain, France, Russia Angry at Franco; Poland
 Sore at Germany
BY JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Staff CorrespOndent)


 Great Britain's cabinet stood by
 nervously today as diplomats sought
 to minimize collapse of negotiations
 for isolation of the Spanish Civil
 WNx. European capitals took con-
 fife ting views of the action of h.
 suhsent Spain in rejecting proposals
 for withdrawal of foreign volunteers
 and opening one of the bitterest of-
 fenMves of the two-year conflict.
 NEitish leaders obviously took a
 grave attitude toward the refusal
 of rebel Generalissimo Francisco
 Franco to cooperate in ending for
 eign participation. Foreign Secre- tary Viscount Halifax sought assur-
 anccs from Paris that the French frontier would be thrown open to
 military supplies for the Spanish
 Loyalists, which would be certain to intensity hostility between France and Italy.
 Russia Makes Demand Soviet Russia demanded imme-
 diate calling of the International Intervention committee, which
 has achieved 50 little in many | months of meetings that its chief
 value has been as safety valve | through which European nations
 backing opposing sides in Span
 might let off steam. The Russian
 demand, designed to revive the
 question of supplies for Spanish
 I,oyalists, probably will be put off.
 1onnrullu rnUprdn6
 sympathetic toward the Loyalists
 out closely bound to Britain's effort
 to isolate the conflict, took perhaps
 the calmest view of Franco's rejec- ! ton. Principal factor influencing | the Paris government was the final
 paragraph of the rebel note in
 which Franco said that his regime
 ''does not consent and will never
 consent to the slightest mortgage on | its soil, or on it's economic life" Assurance to France
 That declaration was intended to fl lhssure France that If the Insurgents |lwln they will turn out the Italian II and German forces which have fblayed such an important factor in III lhe warfare. Frances paramount Il Hear in regard to Spain has been |lthat German and Italian military llnhuence-andI bases--would con- |ltinue, providing danger to |ltrance's Pyrenees frontier and her |lbital communication lines across the \ Mediterranean
 |l Italy, principal packer of Rebel |lbpain, took the view that Premier |I3enito Mussolini was more firmly H lhan ever determined that Franco |lBhould triumph. Opinion was widely |lheld that, If the non-intervention \ blan had gone into eeffct, the civil lRar might have dragged out into a from which there could l |ltmerge no clear-cut victor--a situa- l,ion that would be welcome to Bri- lain. Meanwhile, newspaper com nent in Rome indicated that Italys |lIelations with France are growing | lteadily worse.
 |l Poland Is Excited
 III While the major powers watched | in Spain, sudden urge of anti German sentiment in owns of northern Poland injected c lew uncertainty into the Czecho- |lElovak minority crisis. Poles, angered |iby alleged mistreatment of the Po- 5sh minority in dominated |acanzig, burned German Danzig newspapers and called for a nation vide boycott.
 The demonstrations aroused spec Ilation as to Poland's attitude to- lizard Fuehrer Adolf Hitler's ambi- |lIions in Central Europe. The basic |Alnotive for Polish foreign policy is HID prevent the next world war from |1|eing fought in Poland and, as a re- |l|ult. the Warsaw government has |lIhifted back and forth between Eu- Hopes democracies and totalitarian Hates as expediency dictated. Po- 1 |lIhnd has minority stake in Czech- and in recent months had toward cooperation with the IlItazis despite French protests, trou- |lIle with the Danzig Nazis might MI asily reverse the trend, put new Ia|rake on German ambitions for and political expansion in < |astern Europe.