INTERESTS ETERNAL AND PERPETUAL: BRITISH FOREIGN POLICY AND ...

INTERESTS ETERNAL AND PERPETUAL:

BRITISH FOREIGN POLICY AND

THE ROYAL NAVY IN THE

SPANISH CIVIL WAR,

1936 - 1937

James Sanchez, B. A.

Thesis Prepared for the Degree of

MASTER OF ARTS

UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS

August, 2000

APPROVED:

Bullitt Lowry, Major Professor

Adrian R. Lewis, Committee Member

Richard Lowe, Committee Member

Richard Golden, Chair of the Department of History

C. Neal Tate, Dean of the Robert B. Toulouse School of

Graduate Studies

Sanchez, James, Interests Eternal and Perpetual: British Foreign Policy and the

Royal Navy in the Spanish Civil War, 1936 - 1937. Master of Arts (History), August,

2000, 124 pp., 8 maps, references, 80 titles.

This thesis will demonstrate that the British leaders saw the policy of nonintervention during the Spanish Civil War as the best option available under the

circumstances, and will also focus on the role of the Royal Navy in carrying out that

policy. Unpublished sources include Cabinet and Admiralty papers. Printed sources

include the Documents on British Foreign Policy, newspaper and periodical articles, and

memoirs. This thesis, covering the years 1936-37, is broken down into six chapters, each

covering a time frame that reflected a change of policy or naval mission. The nonintervention policy was seen as the best available at the time, but it was shortsighted and

ignored potentially serious long-term consequences.

Copyright 2000

by

James Sanchez

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Page

LIST OF MAPS ..................................................................................................................... iv

Chapter

1. INTRODUCTION ..................................................................................................... 1

2. BACKGROUND .......................................................................................................

8

3. OPENING SHOTS: THE FIRST SEVEN WEEKS ................................................. 28

July 18 - September 8, 1936.

4. INTERVENTION AND NON-INTERVENTION.................................................... 55

September 9, 1936 - May 28, 1937.

5. STUMBLING RIGHT ALONG ................................................................................ 90

May 29 - September 14, 1937.

6. EPILOGUE AND CONCLUSIONS .........................................................................112

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY.............................................................................................121

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LIST OF MAPS

Page

1. THE IBERIAN PENINSULA IN 1936 ¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­.53

2. THE DIVISION OF SPAIN AT THE END OF JULY, 1936 ¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­53

3. THE DIVISION OF SPAIN, AUGUST, 1936 ¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­54

4. THE DIVISION OF SPAIN, OCTOBER, 1936

¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­54

5. THE DIVISION OF SPAIN, MARCH, 1937 ¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­90

6. THE NAVAL NON-INTERVENTION PATROL ¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­90

7. NAVAL INCIDENTS IN THE MEDITERRANEAN

AUGUST - SEPTEMBER, 1937 ¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­.111

8. THE DIVISION OF SPAIN, OCTOBER, 1937 ¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­.111

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