GEN. FRANCO'S REPLY
SOVIET AMBASSADOR'S CONTEMPT
(Received December 26, 9 a.m.)
LONDON, December 24.
What the Italian Ambassador, Signor Grandi, described as "a kind of recurrent fever" prompted the Soviet Ambassador, M. Maisky, to launch a volley of contemptuous comments at General Franco's reply to the Non-Intervention Committee's suggestions for supervision in Spain.
M. Maisky, after pointing out that the Spanish Government's reply properly emphasised the Government's legitimacy and its right to procure arms to suppress the revolt, said that General Franco on the contrary merely said that he would continue to study the Committee's communications. That reply was a compound of folly and insolence. "Despite the recent great deterioration in diplomatic manners," said M, Maisky, "there are limits to endurable discourtesy and insolence, and General Franco's Note overstepped them. Peace in Spain would be nearer and peace in Europe less endangered if the Committee took a firmer stand with General 'Franco and his protectors."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 153, 26 December 1936, Page 11
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