"NOT OUR CONCERN"

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 29, 28 October 1937, Page 5

"NOT OUR CONCERN"

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il • British Attitude to Events in Spain DROWNING REFUGEES

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(Reepived 28, 8.45 a.m.) LONDON. Oet. 27. The First Lord of the Admiralty, Mf A. Duff-Cooper, replied to eriticism with regard to Spain in the House of Conxmons to-day. Mr Duff-Cooper said he deelined to accept the suggestion that the war was being carried on with greatcr barbarity on one side than on the other. "The Government '8 policy," added the First Lord, "is that what goes on in Spain is not our concern, hut that We shall keep the high seas free for British commerce. The question arises where to dfaw the Hue with regard to noxi-inter-vention in Spain, We have drawn it at the thfee-mile liinit. "We have been told df refugees drowning in ter'ritofial waters Withiii reach Of his Ma jesty sa shipS, Who have not reSCiied thenl. it is hot plcasant td think of neutrals Watchiilg" sufeh Suffef4 iilgs and fefxisiixg to intervehe, hut it 18 part of a great policy, and a souhd policy, that We should not intervene. " Mr. A. Greenwood (LabOtif) criticisj iilg' the tfeatment of Spanish refugees, said that evefy citizen mtist feel fevolted at Mf* Dutf-Cooper'S disgfaoeful speech. He desorved the complete Confehipb of all decenb-minded pefsoiiS. It showed a caUoUs disfegafd fflr buinaii life. The Eihg's speech, he declared, was a feeble fiaseo of eowafdice in evefy WOfd.