REPORTED PACT
BETWEEN GENERAL FRANCO & DICTATORSHIPS CLOSE MILITARY ALLIANCE. CONTROL OVER SEA AND AIR BASES. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day, 10.50 a.m.) PARIS, April 10. Madame Tabouis, in "L'Oeuvre,” states that a military pact was concluded on April 7 between General Franco, Germany, Italy and Japan. Drafted in the form of a protocol .which is being interpreted as an Anti-Comintern Pact, it provides: — (1) All Spanish sea and air bases shall be at tne disposal of the axis for eighteen months. (2) Spanish territory is guaranteed by the other signatories against outside attack. (3) The Spanish army is placed under the control of a “commission of coordination,” on which all the signatories are equally represented. (4) The axis is to bear the cost of constructing a Spanish Maginot Line fifty miles behind the French-Span-ish frontier, plus a number of strategic bases. (5) The other signatories support General Franco’s territorial claims, including those of Gibraltar and French Morocco.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 April 1939, Page 6
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158REPORTED PACT Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 April 1939, Page 6
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