European reports indicated tonight that secret conferences were going on among the top flight leaders of France, Spain, and Portugal, possibly foreshadowing some major war development in the Western Mediterranean.

Meanwhile the German transocean news agency announced in a Berlin dispatch that Spains Generalissimo Francisco Franco, accompanied by Spanish Foreign Minister Ramon Serrano Suner, was expected to leave Madrid Wednesday for Seveille to meet President Antonio Oscar de Fragose Carmnoa and Premier Antino de Oliveira Salazar of Portugal.