WITHDRAWAL PLAN

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 124, 27 May 1937, Page 10

WITHDRAWAL PLAN

FOREIGN NATIONALS IN SPAIN

COMMITTEE'S WORK

(British Official Wireless.) (Received May 27, 2.35 p.m.)

RUGBY, May 28.

The question of the withdrawal of foreign nationals from the Spanish civil war was again before the International Committee in London today, and the preparation of the 'scheme was carried a stage further by the reference of the experts' report to the Non-intervention Governments for their comments;

The Committee received a report of the operation of the observation scheme in the period since the last plenary session and noted that the scheme was operating smoothly and on the full scale contemplated both by land and by sea. - -

The draft appeal to the two parties in Spain regarding the conduct of the conflict was considered and amended, and it will come up again for adoption at a further meeting of the plenary committee on Friday.

In submitting to the Government the report of the technical advisory subcommittee containing the plan for the withdrawal from Spain of non-Spanish nationals engaged either directly or.indirectly in the present conflict, the representatives of the - Non-interven-tion Committee will request them to inform the Committee as soon as possible whether the plan commends itself to them and whether they would be prepared to take certain courses of action indicated in the report in the event, first of general agreement being reached by the International Committee as to the nature of the withdrawal plan, and secondly, of the acceptance of that plan by the two parties in Spain. The replies of a number of Governments to the Committee's questionnaire regarding legal and other problems raised by acts of interference by the two parties in Spain.with shipping of European countries have not yet been received. ■