AID TO GEN. FRANCO
BY TIME BAN ENFORCED
ASSUMED BELIEF
RAPID INFLOW OF TROOPS
United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. (Received February 18, 11.30 a.m.) LONDON, February 17. The diplomatic correspondent of "The Times" says it is widely assumed that the foreign Governments which are supporting General Franco believe that they will have supplied him with sufficient aid by the time non-intervention is enforced to bring his campaign to a successful conclusion. The inflow, especially of Italians, has been very rapid in the past few weeks, and the total number of Italians has risen from 10,000 to 50,000.
The "Manchester Guardian's" diplomatic correspondent agrees that 50,000 Italians and ample supplies of war material are at present in Spain, and adds [hat the dispatch of Russian war maLerial to the loyalists is declining. French volunteering has come to a standstill and thousands of disillusioned men are clamouring to be repatriated. The campaign has become mainly an Italian war against the diminishing loyalist party. Germany is now playing a minor part, and it is reported that ghe does not desire to leave considerable forces in Spain when they may be needed in Central Europe in the near future.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 41, 18 February 1937, Page 9
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195AID TO GEN. FRANCO Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 41, 18 February 1937, Page 9
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