DANGER OF FASCIST VICTORY.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 263, 19 August 1936, Page 5

DANGER OF FASCIST VICTORY.

INFLUENCE ON OTHER POWERS.

SIR ABE BAILEY’S VIEWS. (United Press Association—Copyright.) (Received This Day, 10.10 a.m.) LONDON, August 18. Sir Abe Bailey, in a letter to the “Daily Telegraph,” stresses the danger of a Fascist victory in Spain from the viewpoint of the British Empire. “I have little or no sympathy with the Spanish left,” says Sir Abe) “but I do not share the view of many Conservatives in England that a junta of ambitious generals would restore order more successfully than their opponents. On the contrary, I fear that the success of General Fi’anco would bring Signor Mussolini’s dx’eam of transfoi'ming the Mediterranean into an Italian lake nearer realisation and also give Germany that foothold in Morocco for which she neai'ly plunged the world into war in 1911. Signor Mussolini’s ambitions are' perfectly clear. He is contemptuous of British opposition. He lost no time in fomenting another quarrel in the West Mediterranean and gave General Fi’anco the' means of securing a smashing success, on which the rebels, fortunately for Britain, erroneously counted. Herr Hitler’s policy is more obscure'. At present he does not wish to quarrel with Britain, as Germany plans to defeat those standing in her way one by one, leaving the most formidable to the last, thus avoiding the error of 1914.”