Spectator

War-torn Spain became a mere spectator last week as both belligerent armies virtually halted their small-scale war to watch the deepening European crisis. Leftist authorities believed that both sides in Spain would be weakened by a general European war, the Rightists because Germany and Italy would withdraw their generous aid from Generalissimo Franco, the Leftists because not only would they have little chance of receiving further Soviet aid, but Britain and other maritime powers would commandeer for their own use the tramp steamers which now run food and gasoline to Barcelona and Valencia. Leftists believed, however, that they would have less to lose than the Rightists.

Rightist Generalissimo Francisco Franco was reported to have withdrawn German pilots from bases near the French border as a "gesture of neutrality" toward France. From, internationally-governed Tangier, Morocco, came reports of anti-Rightist rioting in adjoining Spanish Morocco, resulting in 35 killed, 400 arrested. Meanwhile, the British freighters Bobie and Standlake were badly damaged--they were said to be the 64th and 65th to be bombed --and four British seamen killed by a Rightist air raid on Barcelona's water front. Other casualties: 31 dead, 112 wounded.

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