That the attitude of Mexico, with ratard to the delivery of arms and munitions to the Spanish Government, would breach the arrangements which the non-intervention Powers have taken to prevent military supies reaching either side concerned in "the Spanish Civil War was! foreseen in recent comment, by this journal. The view then taken has been supported by the declaration of the President of Mexico that it was intended to continue to help the Spanish Government, explaining that it considered it its duty "to support Tegally constituted governments in all parts" of the world." President Cardenas even went so far as lo say that "any government that finds itself in the. same situation can rely on Mexico's help." The sympathies of the Mexican government are so large ly with the Spanish government, that the concluding sentence can only be accepted with the realest possible Fesorve. It is a delightful picture: that it is sought therein to paint, and its full significance can only be oppredated if it is taken to mean that Should an internal uprising, against the governments of Tlaly or Germany ever take place—and that certainly appears very unlikely at the moment, the Mexican government of ex: tremely Leftist "sympathies would, hurry with offers of help to people who think absolutely differently from it, Te is not likely, howerer, that the sistance which Mexico can afford will be any great contribution to the: Fesourees of the Spanish government, While Mexican ships carrying war material could pass through the: cordon which the non-intervention, Powers have placed round the Iberian. peninsula, they would still have to Fun the' risk' of encountering the vessels of the rebels. That that risk.
by no means a small one is proved by the fate which overtook the M: Cantabrico just recently.
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