SOVIET RETREATING ON THREAT TO HELP LEFTISTS IN SPAIN; PRESSED BY HER ALLIES Russia Backs Down on the Demand of France and Czechoslovakia. BRITAIN ALSO TOOK PART Soviet Spokesmen Expected to Be Mild at Meeting of Neutrals Today. SPAIN'S LEFTISTS STIFFEN Resist South of Navalcarnero and Hold Foe at Bay Near Siguenza and Aranjuez. Soviet Changes Its Front SOVIET RETREATS ON AID TO LEFTISTS
Repts indicate USSR will abandon fight to expose Fascist powers' activities, press and popular demonstrations in Moscow toned down; diplomatic pressure from France, Gt Brit and Czechoslovakia believed responsible; Reich and Italy expected to press counter-charges against Soviet Union at com meeting (F Kuhn Jr)