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Those guns could be supplied only from abroad. At week's end the brightest spot on the Loyalist horizon was Paris. There the executive committee of Premier Edouard Daladier's Radical Socialist Party—without whose support he cannot remain in power—passed with only one dissenting vote a resolution asking a curb on Italian aid for Generalissimo Franco. The French General Staff has long viewed with misgivings the establishment of a Fascist power on France's southern frontier. There were signs that to "neutralize' Italian aid to Franco the French might unseal the Spanish frontier and allow military equipment to pour into Catalonia, as it poured in during the last big Franco offensive last March. Such an action would, of course, anger Dictator Mussolini (see p. 18), would be just the ingredient needed to produce a first-class European crisis.