NON-INTERVENTION

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 212, 7 August 1937, Page 9

NON-INTERVENTION

•ELIMINATING DIFFICULTIES. SOME PROGRESS MADE. THE BRITISH PROPOSALS. (United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (British Official Wireless.) Received August 7, 10.7 a.m. RUGBY, Aug. G. After sitting for an hour and a half at tho Foreign Office the Non-Inter-vention Committee decided to request the chairman and the secretary of the Non-Intervention Board for a report on tho observations scheme and for suggestions for restoring and improving the scheme of control. At the beginning of the meeting, the Earl of Plymouth said he was able to record some progress towards the elimination of the difficulties in securing tho adoption of the British proposals, but, unfortunately, there had not been sufficient to enable the committee to proceed. However, he had found all the representatives equally anxious to avoid a breakdown in tbe committee’s work and' he thought that a report and suggestions of the kind to which the committee later agreed to ask for would be valuable while he continued to explore a way out of the difficulties.

The Soviet representative intimated Ins Government’s inability to modify its opinion against the recognition of belligerent rights in favour of tho Spanish insurgents. The German representative said that unilateral control could clearly not go on indefinitely. In reply to the Russian representative’s request for a specific statement that the German, Italian and Portuguese Governments would agree untho withdrawal ol volunteers, Senor Monteiro emphasised the essential interdependence of the British proposals, which the Portuguese Government had accepted in • principle as a whole. Count Grandi reiterated specifically and categorically that the Italian Government accepted the British plan in principle. The committee also heard a statement from the secretary showing that many of tho Governments were in arrears in their payments under the nonintervention plan, and the representatives present agreed immediately to inform their Governments of tho situation with a view to the necessary payments being made. The committee is unlikely to meet again for at least a fortnight.