The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-04-13

cil continues its long cooling off
 recess until Monday, the activity on the Spanish issue shifted to
 Washington. Madrid and Moscow These events, all of which tended
 to build up the tenseness amons
 LIN delegates, were:
 In Westinghouse high quarter confirmed, as reported earlier this week by the United Press, that the U. 8. will back Poland's right to state her charges against Spain be- for the council. But at the same time the United States will hold that if the council considers Spain Q menace to world peace, then Franco Spain has @ right to come before the council and defend her. self.
 At the Spanish embassy in Wash- lngton-a spokesman announced that Franco Spain would reject any invitation by the council to de- fend itself because 1t would in- volve question of national dig nity." He also challenged the councils right to discuss the Franco regime.
 announced that the Sovbekojeta In Moscow -- the Moscow radio announced that the Soviet govern ment "wholeheartedly" endorsed the Polish charges against Spain and called for joint action to rid the world of the Spanish menace" to peace.
 In Madrid-Franco's cabinet de- cided to invite the United Nations having diplomatic relations with Spain to send commission to in- vestigate Poland's charges that German scientists in Spain are be- ing encouraged by Franco on new war weapon research.
 Lange, who filed the formal com- plaint against Spain, declined to comment on the fast moving events in the Spanish crisis. But it was learned that he and his staff are preparing what is described as carefully documented case.
 They were encouraged a little by confirmation that the United States is not prejudging the case. The American attitude has been that the Spanish question is all in- ternal matter. But now 6 high quarter in Washington confirms that the United States decision on any Polish proposal for action will depend upon what the Poles present in their indictment and what sort of action she suggests the council should take.
 This was Q hint that the United States might support a Polish pro- posal if 1t were short of @ diplo- Inatic break-a policy the U. S. has never found very effective when used in Latin America. But the Poles and the Russians are not likely to feel that anything short of Q diplomatic quarantine of Spain will be effective.
 The United States will follow the same basic principles in the Span- ish case as in the Iranian one. Those are that any nation has a right to tell the council in detail of any situation which it thinks menaces the peace, and that the accused has right to tell it's side of the story--even if it isn't LIN member.
 In addition to the main general issue raised by Poland against Spain, there is the major side one one concerning the activities of Nazi scientists in Spain.
 Confusing Angle
 This has become confused since first raised. The formal Polish com- plaint said only that the scientists were working on new war weapons. But 8 Polish source said later that Poland had evidence which indi- cated they might be working on atomic and rocket research.
 The State Department added to | some of the confusion by first say- ing there was plant near Bilboa, Spain, capable of atomic energy | work. But later it issued a more | worded formal statement | saying 1t had no information of | any atomic energy work going on | In Spain.
 It was against that background that the Spanish government de- cided to invite 8 LIN commission to investigate what it called Polands charge that atomic energy was be- ing produced in Spain. The limita- tion placed by the cabinet on the offer, however, is not likely to gain acceptance by LIN. The cabi- net specified that only nations with diplomatic missions in Spain could be on the commissions condition which would eliminate both Poland and Russia.