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...International Committee on Nonintervention, early last week succeeded in pushing through that body Britain's long-discussed plan for quarantining the Spanish War in Spain. Soviet Russia finally acquiesced. Main features of the plan were closing of land frontiers, greater vigilance of ships going to Spain, stationing of neutral observers in big Spanish ports, counting of foreigners fighting on either side, eventual withdrawal. There was a chance that this agreement actually was an agreement-for three days. Then, as has often happened in both factions, the Soviet Union soon found "practical" obstacles...
...caring for the wounded soldier. Having seen thousands of wounded men lie on the battlefield for days in unattended agony, Dunant returned to Geneva to write his horror-filled Un souvenir de Solférino, to start a movement for an international, nonpolitical medical organization with headquarters in traditionally neutral Switzerland, with autonomous supporting units in every civilized nation. With his driving push, with the notable help of Napoleon III, Dunant and his associates were able to induce 26 governments to sign agreements guaranteeing respect for the wounded, neutralizing military hospitals, protecting the material and personnel of medical services. Also...
...German Government has taken note with great interest that the Swiss Government has been successful in its efforts to free itself of obligations that were indeed liable to endanger its neutrality. . . . The Swiss Government can therefore be assured that its determination to remain neutral at all times will find a corresponding determination on the part of the German Government to acknowledge and respect this neutrality," wrote Reich Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop. Italian Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano replied in almost identical terms...
...Hitler and II Duce Benito Mussolini would persuade Generalissimo Francisco Franco to talk matters over with his enemies; 2) that French Premier Edouard Daladier could press Spanish Leftist Premier Juan Negrin to declare a truce; 3) that Leftists and Rightists would agree to a government of Spain formed by "neutral" Spaniards in which Catalonia would remain autonomous...
...students of the British Prime Minister's "realistic" policy, Mr. Chamberlain's notions were something less than realistic. Neither Germany's Hitler nor Italy's Mussolini showed any interest in the plan; France's Quai d'Orsay remained understandably silent. Unmentioned anywhere were "neutral" Spaniards qualified to run the country...