Exchange of Agents with Franco

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 40, 10 November 1937, Page 5

Exchange of Agents with Franco

(British Official Wireless.)

MR EDEN'S DEFENCE Britain's Trade Worth, Steps to Protect It NO BREACH INVOLVED

(Received 10, 12.50 p.m.) EUGBY, Nov. 9. Tl.o debate in the House of Commons On the motion for the adjournment coneluded with a division, resulting:— For the Government 241 Against 107 In winding-up the debate, which was devoted to diseussion of the Government statement on the exchange of trade agents with General Franco, the Spanish insurgent leader, Mr Anthony Eden emphasised that the exchange involved no breach of non-interventioa. " He deprecated the attempt by one Opposition member to create suspicion. .t«garding the negotiations with General Franco. It was very unlikely, he'said, that France would make representations . against the proposed move, because hew 1 representation iu General Fr'anco's territory had been better than Britain 'a. Britain's relations with France were and, he was confident, would continue to be, so close and so intimate t|iat'; there was no question of a matter of . this kind, important to Britain's trading.and not of great international significance, haying the effect suggested. Mr. Eden said that British trade ■' with ' General Franco's area of Spain .was worth £2,000,000 from January to September. It was worth notmal steps to protect. it. The task of the agents was limited to trade.