Italian Navy Construction Boom

Today, the Italian government announced the beginning of a huge naval construction program. This plan augments the Italian rearmament program introduced in 1937.

US Congress bans aid to Spanish Civil War Belligerents

In response to the ongoing Civil War in Spain, the united States Congress has seen fit to outlaw shipment of arms to the parties fighting in the war. Congress passed the bill yesterday prohibiting sail and shipment of arms to Spain.

The United States continues its stance of neutrality in the increasingly bloody civil war. Conflict has raged in the country since July 1936. Before that there was upheaval in the government in 1931.