European statesmen have long feared that one of Spain's warring governments, finding itself in a desperate situation, would try to avert defeat by starting a general European war. Last week the harried Spanish Leftist Government, cut off from munitions supplies through France, its ports partly blockaded by ships and air bombers, delivered to the British and French Governments a threat which, if carried out, might easily produce another European Sarajevo.
In Barcelona, Foreign Minister Julio Alvarez del Vayo called in French Ambassador Eirik Labonne, warned him that if the French and British...
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