German volunteers. who served with General Yranco in the Spanish war have returned to Germany and their arrival at Hamburg in five liners is described as one of the most impressive demonstrations witnessed in Germany. Warships escorted the liners and the volunteers marched past Field Marshal Goering, who announced that they will participate in a victory parade before Chancellor Hitler on Tuesday, while a special issue of medals has been struck to reward the men. Far more astonishing than the welcome given to these men who fought for General Franco and, according to German newspapers, played a great part in obtaining the victory over the Republican forces, is that this is the first official admission that Germany ever intervened in. the Spanish conflict. Since the early days of the war when the question of foreign intervention arose this aspect of.the Spanish situation has been most perplexing for on all sides intervention was denied, and beyond a grudging admission by Germany and Italy that perhaps a few volunteers had joined the Franco army attracted by the spirit of adventure every effort to prove that large and well-equipped foreign forces, many of them from the regular army, with tanks, artillery, aeroplanes and munitions were participating met with strong denials. "Foreign press lies" was the common term used although now German newspapers are claiming, among other things, that German air units took part in every great action in the war and in the bombing of towns and villages. On the Italian side, 15,000 legionaries having already left Cadiz for Italy, participation in the war has already passed from the merely active sphere to the sphere of academic and scientific analysis of the effects of aerial bombing and other offensive methods although the Non-Intervention Committee, since its very initiation, has been at pains not to prevent intervention but even to prove, or wring from participants, the admission that they even had troops and supplies engaged. The situation is very confusing and now that Spain is under another form of control there is nothing to be done about it. Another conception of belligerent relations between states and armies has been created in addition to the "undeclared war" conception of the Sino-Japanese hostilities, and The somewhat obstreperous form of neutrality being maintained along the Manchoukuo-Mongolian-Russian border. Soldiers, of course, fight wars but the next war will probably need lawyers and dẹ tactives to find out what is happening.
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