NO BIG MODIFICATION

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 166, 31 July 1937, Page 5

NO BIG MODIFICATION

(British Official Wireless.)

Britain's Stand in Spanish Non-Intervention MR EDEN'S PLEDGE

(Received 31, 12.30 p.m.) RUGBY, July 30. The ehairman 's sub-comnnittee of the Non-Intervention Committee for over three hours examined replies received from Governments on the new British proposals. After general discussion the sub-eommittee adjourned to enable the Governments to reeonsider the situation. Deelining the request of Major Attlee and Mr. Lloyd George that he should pledge the Government to sumoion Parliament in any event before the grant of belligerent rights to the Spanish insurgents, Mr. Anthony Eden, Foreign Minister, made a statement in the House of- Commons. at the adjournment of the debate: "There is a pledge I cau give so far as the present British plan before the Non-Intervention Committee is concerned: we do not propose to agree to any major modification of it." He confessed that he found it difficult to see how, if the international committee failed to reach an agreemeut on the British plan, the policy of nonintervention could be saved. If in the Government's view the situation was so serious as to warrant the summoning of Parliament, they would avail themselves of the provisions in the adjournment motion enabling the Speaker to call the House of Commons in an emergency, but he (Mr. Eden) would not have them under-rate the desire of other nations to prevent a breakdown of non-intervention.