NON-INTERVENTION

Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 April 1938, Page 9

NON-INTERVENTION

REPORT ON PRESENT POSITION LORD PLYMOUTH’S PROPOSALS. REFERENCE TO GOVERNMENTS. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, March 31. Lord Plymouth presided at a meeting of the Sub-Committee of the NonIntervention Committee to-day. Outlining the present position of the nonintervention scheme, he referred to the two chief difficulties remaining after the acceptance in principle of the British formula. The first was the basic figure of the formula. The second was that the date for the restoration of observation on land frontiers should be restored. On the earliest day on which both Commissions reported that they would be ready to start counting, and that it should automatically be suspended if withdrawal had not actually begun on the fifty-sixth day after the final adoption by the full committee of the resolution, or, alternatively, if in the initial stage of the withdrawal the scheme were to fall more than ten days behind the agreed time-table. The sub-committee then agreed that all representatives' on the sub-committee and the main committee should at once submit to theixrespective Governments Lord Plymouth’s proposals, together with a report on the discussion, with a request fox- instructions at the earliest possible moment.

Regarding the classification of volunteers, the sub-committee agreed that the Governments should be consulted regarding tne proposals made in the secretariat’s . memorandum on the practicability of classifying foreign vounteers by categories for the purpose of withdrawal. The sub-committee further' agreed, after- the secretary had called attention to the difficult financial position of the observation scheme, to submit a memorandum thereon to the Governments, with a request fox- early instructions.