VICIOUS REPLY BY MADRID RADIO

Chronicle (Levin), 13 March 1946, Page 5

VICIOUS REPLY BY MADRID RADIO

THREE POWERS LIKENED TO NAZIS AND BOLSHEVIKS Received Tuesday, 11.5 p.m. v-:. - LONDQN, March • 11. - In the • most sharpiy-worded - mttack i since the United States, Ehgiand and j I'ranee issued -their vjoint ^^l^tati^n ' cailimgifor . fhe peaceful aVolitloij*1 ok the ±'raa,e6" Eeginie, the Madrid 'Tadio'dikened them to ' ' German Nazis and Russian Bolsheviks." The radio added: "It is clear that the so-called Western democracies are no longer Western and no ionger demoI cratic. They have caught an infection ! with the absolutist, imperialistic menI tality which is discovered between the j Rhine and the Pacific Ocean. These ' three Governments have not respected t Lpain's internal constitution, and they j siiow the same desire as Rihhentrop | and Molotov to fashion a horrible world j in which there would be no hope for dis- | tinction and diversity. Spain, by dej feilding this imposition is defending j the rights of all other nations' politij cal iudepfendence. This principle is j well worth living and dying for if | necessary.' ' ! The United States Government has j refused France's request to take the: j question of the Franco regime in Spain I before United Nations' Security Counj cil. The French Foreign Oflice, in an- ; nouncing this, said the United States . did not consider the Franco Govern- | ment a threat to internation.il peace ; and security. Hence it was not a proper J subject for United Nations tliscussion. The British military attache in Madj rid had reported that Spanigh rein- : forcements were recently despatched to : the Pyreneea frontier, said Mr. Hector McNeil, replying in the House qf Gomj mons, to a question. Mr. McNeil did | not reply when asked whether the BritI ish, American and French demarehe had : not had the eifect of increasing support l'or Franco, rather than alienating it. Breaking up a satirical charade, staged by frock-coated and goateebearded Madrid. students masquerading as Frenchmen, police used truncheons j and arrested several. The students paraded outside the French Ambassy in imitation of recent scen.es in front of Spanish Embassies ahroad in which crowds protested against the execution ! of Christino Garcia, says Reuter's correspondent,