The Archive · 1938

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Washington, June 6, Omeials of the State Department] today. said that the Government was considering the British proposal that The United States join Britain and her neutral Powers to investigate the aerial bombing of Spanish eivi= ted Press, devoted lengthy articles bombings In Spain and China, "Yesterday again brought news of numerous bombings In China and Spain." stated "The times today. "Canton suffered the worst raid of the war.

"Siast night it was learned that th Japanese Government, having realized that the British protests against the Lombing 6 Canton had the backing esses and official reports, eer? Berlin, June ince the trip paid to italy by. the Fuehrer, the press here is taking particular pains to express clearly the "Reich's aims in' South-East Europe, notably the political snd economic objectives of this country in the Danube basin and the Balkan 'The "Berliner Zeitung' bringing up'the "misunderstanding" by Demoefacies of the Sudeten problem and the whole of South-East European questions, demands that relations wit Balkan and Danubian states modeled "on those between Great Britain and the Dominions, The paper specified thai sucha system, which It terms the "economic system of the Greater Relelt™ would be practically tantamount to a colon al possession by virtue of the pr ferential tariffs between the Danubian {and Batkan econonyle. systems with the Reich.

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accord, with Moly. and forming the nucleus around ound Tungar Bulgaria, Greece, Spai colonies, Albania, and Inter Turkey, and the Japanese Such plans may seem exayyerated, bout it ie certain that during. his trip to Rome, Herr Hitler outlined Duce the vital necessity. for Germany to' supply herself with foodstuffs and materials inthe Balkan states and the Danube Basin, "The Third Melch considers these territories as a natural complement of its economy which Is risking strangus Intion if Germany does not expand hier dation, and this despite the Four Year Plan, German" indignation certain political and financial. mit Eastern Europe by West crocies results from the fact that the Reich considers these initiatives "interference" in a zone in which It claims control that they Would make a. tres! careful investigation," the fedded, "In China Spanish towns there are few oF me, and the British Government are anxious that the small international Jecmmission which they have suggested begin work a8 early ax possible." the Si. Winifred, Alicante resulting. in' the Toss fives, the death of 27 people in the same city by,

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