Motives Recognised

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 135, 24 June 1937, Page 5

Motives Recognised

(British Official Wireless.)

no further action Germany Still Members of Committee MR EDEN'S STATEMENT

(Received 24, 12.30 p.m.) RUGBY, June 23. In the course of a statement in the House of Commons on Germany 's and Italy 's withdrawal from the " Spanish naval control * scheme, Mr Anthony Eden said that the British Ambassador in Berlin . had seen Baron von Neurath concerning the matt&r, and he had been > informed thei Germany Government regretted that it had not been possible to reach an agreement, and Germany therefore felt obliged to withdraw their ships altogether from the control system.

Baron von Neurath had said that this action was bedng taken with the speeific intention of avoiding the possibility of aggravation of the situatdon, and the German Government would confine itself to this action. "The British Government gladly recogmises and welcomes the motives which inspire this assurance," said Mr Eden. "I understand further that tlie German Government does not contemplate ceasing participation in the NonIntervention Committee. The Italian Ambassador has since been to eee me, when he informed me that his Government had also decided to withdraw its ships from the control system." In answer to a question, Mr Eden agreed that the withdrawal of the Germans and Italians from naval control left questions to be considered, but he insisted that the important point was the assurance given the British Ambassador that the German Government would confiife itself to withdrawal from naval patrol following the failure of consultative procedure in the Leipzig case. He told Mr Lloyd George 'that as he undeTstood it, Germany and Italy were withdrawing only from participation in naval control, and the Non-Intervention Agreement was unaffected.