GERMAN SATISFACTION

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19884, 10 March 1939, Page 5

GERMAN SATISFACTION

“DEMOCRACIES’ FAILURE” BERLIN PRESS OPINION BERLIN, March 2. The German press expresses satisfaction at the .failure of the democracies to force conditions upon Gen eral Franco in their recognition of his administration and to detach him from Italy and Germany. Britain and France are warned no. ~o interpret “Spanish independence as adherence to the political system of the western Powers. , The Nachtausgabe says: The civil war has given Spain an army, an many organisations and economic possibilities, which cannot be exploited with the money of the demociatic States, but much better with the expert advice of Spain’s true fnends. “The political question of the immediate future,” it adds, “is whether Britain afid France can develop the true friendship of Spain now they have lost the game in trying to erect an Anglo-French hegemony over Spain.’ Dr. Karl Silex, the editor of the Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, says that the British and French people have been told that the negotiations have ensured that the Italians and Germans are not occupying the Balearic Islands. “The Red potentates,” he continues, “tried to make pawns_ of the Spanish colonial possessions in payment to Britain and France for services rendered. To attempt to pass ofi Spanish independence as a victory for the Entente is amazing impudence.’’