APPEAL TO LEAGUE
DEL VAYO TO SPEAK
DISTURBING OF PEACE OF
NATIONS
GENEVA, May 21. The .action of the Spanish Government in requesting the,. League of Nations fo insert, in the agenda for next week's Council meeting the question of German and Italian intervention in the civil war is.based on Article 11 of the LeagUe Covenant, giving member States the "friendly right" to draw attention to circumstances threatening to., disturb'-.' international peace. , ' . _, .The spokesman in-support of the request will be Senor del Vayo, former Minister of Foreign Affairs, who will present documents which the Government 'has been collecting for a long time, including evidence that the Italian Prime Minister (Signor Mussolini) entered' into relations with the rebel commander-in-chief ■ (General Franco) in U934. It claims that for three months- before the civil war broke' out- Italy and Germany were sending General Franco munitions. Other evidence includes passports of captured German airmen showing that they'left Germany long after the ban on the sending' of volunteers to Spain had been imposed. • ,
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 120, 22 May 1937, Page 9
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168APPEAL TO LEAGUE Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 120, 22 May 1937, Page 9
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