Wairarapa Daily Times (Established Over 60 Years.) THURSDAY, 17th SEPTEMBER, 1936. POSITION IN SPAIN.

Wairarapa Daily Times, 17 September 1936, Page 6

Wairarapa Daily Times (Established Over 60 Years.) THURSDAY, 17th SEPTEMBER, 1936. POSITION IN SPAIN.

The first step from the general agreement among the Powers upon non-intervention in Spain is the proposal to set up a representative advisory committee to deal with complaints and other matters arising from the agreement. The British Government has let it be known that it wishes to see the committee .installed in London, and inspired Press comments declare that, failing prompt action on these lines, Britain will be “faced with the necessity to make, new and far-reaching decisions” in alternative to non-intervention. The Spanish issue is regarded as a question not so much which is the “better horse,” as whether this or that foreign backer is to come out on top. Whatever differences there may have been between “Communism” and Fascism” originally, these cults in their expansion clearly embrace tendencies extraordinarily similar in

general practice. Each is becoming rather a stream upon which are floated more deviods objectives. Is Fascism (or National Socialism as an alternative label) aspiring now, for purposes of propagation, to erect a Fourth —or is it

a Firth?—lnternational? All war is horrible; but civil war is the worst affliction which can befall any nation, as Spain is once more proving. Where the combatants on each side treat each other as wild beasts, it is not to be expected that either should feel the least concern as to whether or not all Europe, all the world, be involved in the quarrel. What the end is likely to be in Spain none can tell. But civilisation must be bankrupt indeed if the Powers cannot agree to isolate the homicidal fury now raging there.