, the Spanish government was considering declaring war on Germany in 1937

plans...for a possible invasion

it transpired that they could not rely on support from Russia. Madrid was also unsure of the extent they could depend on help from European democracies like Great Britain or France

In quite the oddest tale dredged up from any national archive in a long time, I have discovered that "". Source . Odder still, it also refers to ''.it was the de jure government of Spain, the Republicans, rather than Franco's lot that wanted to unleash the dogs ofwar on Hitler's Germany and a bit of rooting around suggests that the navy and the air force were, initially at least, loyal to the Republic. Consequently the government would have had the ability to project force of sorts, although the rather sizeable problem of France would have prevented any march across the German frontier. I have not been able to discover what manner of warships the Republic had at its command, but they had fairly bleeding edge bombers in the Tupolev SB-2 The idea was spiked becuase ''. Lots more here for anyone who has anything better than my 'bar Spanish'.Being unable to resist the temptation to speculate wildly, I imagine a war that started two years earlier would have led to Soviet domination of the entire continent.