“Get Together and End This Farce”

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 339, 21 January 1937, Page 5

“Get Together and End This Farce”

BRITISH VOLUNTERS. 750 Soldiers From Britain Now In Spain. Press Association —Copyright. London, Jan. 19. Speaking in the debate on the international situation in the House of Commons, the Foreign Secretary, Mr R. A. Eden, dealing with the Foreign Enlistment Act, said there had been agents in Britain seeking to recruit young menj particularly air pilots, one of whom was offered £4O a week, with expenses, and a bonus of £5OO for every enemy shot down.. Mr. C. R. Attlee, Labour Leader, endorsed the value of international co-operation but twitted Mr. Edenapparently wishing to free himself, not only from partisanship, but from any idea except that might was right. He treated the loyalist and revolutionary Spanish Governments as of equal validity. The non-interven-tion Powers should get together and end the farce. Other Powers would welcome a British stand to restore the Spanish Government’s rights. Sir Archibald Sinclair, Liberal leader, said the Government displayed grave (weakness in signing the Anglo-Italian agreement without any Italian undertaking about intervention in Spain, which was increasing The Spaniards if left alone would find a way out which would be neither Bolshevism nor Fascism. He understood that 750 British soldiers were now fighting in Spain.