BRITISH PROPOSALS

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 132, 5 June 1937, Page 9

BRITISH PROPOSALS

SAFETY IN SPANISH

WATERS

A LOYALIST ASSURANCE

LONDON, June 4.

The diplomatic correspondent of "The Times" says that British proposals communicated to France, Germany, and Italy provide for first, an extended system of safety zones in Spanish waters which the Spanish contending forces should be pledged strictly to observe; and secondly, immediate consultation between England, France, Germany, and Italy in the event of any'future attack'upon any of them, based on the principle that the four fleets are performing a common international duty which invests them. with a common responsibility.

The representative of the Spanish ■Government, Senor del Vayo, conferred in Paris with the.Prime Minister, M. Leon Blum, and the Minister of Foreign Affairs, M. Delbos, and gave the fullest assurance that the loyalists would prevent incidents likely to produce further international tension. He also pleaded strongly for the withdrawal of volunteers from Spain as the only means' of shortening the struggle.

The Berlin correspondent of "The Times" says that the German Government, having made its reprisal, is willing to find a solution enabling it to rejoin the international control scheme.

The British treatment of the Deutschland's wounded, including the dispatch of nurses by air, is greatly appreciated in Berlin.