FRANCE MAY ACT

Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 153, 26 December 1936, Page 11

FRANCE MAY ACT

AMBASSADOR WARNED

SERIOUS BRITISH VIEW

(rulted Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) LONDON December 24. It ' now appears that M. Dalbos, French Foreign Minister, did not act alone in warning Germany that if she continued to support the rebels in Spain French non-intervention could not be counted upon.. It is understood that Mr. Anthony Eden, British Foreign Minister, informed Herr yon Ribbentrop, the German Ambassador, before his departure for Berlin of Britain's serious view of the presence of the German forces in Spain. The "Daily Telegraph's" Paris correspondent says it is understood that M. Delbos, in receiving Count Wetczeck, the German Ambassador, warned him that if further German military reinforcements were sent to • Spain it would become practically impossib.e to maintain even the emptiest appearance of neutrality and that a European conflict might follow. The "Morning Post's" Paris corresrespondent says that M. Delbos told Count \Vetczeck that France would not continue indefinitely to watch Germany transporting an army to Spain, but what steps the French Government is mediating as a reply are not known. It is at least.clear, states the correspondent, that the French Government considers that the limit to what can be tolerated from Germany in Spain has either been reached or is in sight, and that France is now trying to convince Germany that she means what she says. If Germany refuses to believe this France may be forced to take some step which will convince Germany that she also is capable of firmness of action. HITLER ON HOLIDAY. A Berlin message states that Herr Hitler had long consultations yesterday with ' General Goering, General Blomberg, Minister of Defence, and other Nazi chiefs, but the fact that he subsequently left for Berchtesgaden to spend Christmas indicates that no crisis is imminent. He is not expected back Berlin before January 11. Earlier it was reported from Berlin that discussions were believed' to be in progress between Berlin, Paris, and London of such importance that HenHitler was remaining in the capital. The discussions were understood to involve the relationship between the Franco-Soviet pact and the new Locarno pact. The "Manchester Guardian's" diplomatic correspondent says that German labour is intensely interested in the Spanish war. Partisanship among the workers has increased because many . German Socialists are fighting en the side of the Spanish Government. JOINT ACTION. It is understood that the Eritlsh and French Governments have separately instructed their Ambassadors at Berlin, Rome, Moscow, and Lisbon to urge the respective Governments to co-operate in talcing measures to end the flow of foreign volunteers to Spain.