NO CHANGE IN POLICY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 April 1938, Page 7

NO CHANGE IN POLICY

THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT & NONINTERVENTION

ATTITUDE TOWARDS ITALY PROMISE or EARLY SETTLEMENT By Telegraph.—Press Association, Copyright. (Recd his Day, 10.20 a.m.) RUGBY, April 11. When asked in the House of Commons what reply it would send to the Note from the Spanish Government, requesting restoration of the right in international law to purchase munitions. Mr. R. A. Butler, Foreign Under-Secre-tary, said the British Government had replied that, after careful consideration of all the arguments advanced in the Note, it did not see its way to modify its declared policy of non-intervention in Spanish affairs.

Asked for information regarding recent arrivals of Italian air pilots and war material in Spain the Prime Minister, the Rt Hon Neville Chamberlain, said he did not think there was evidence that recent operations in Spain had been materially affected by recent

reinforcements. Asked whether the Government had received any assurance that the Italian Government would withdraw its troops and advisers' from Spain after fighting in that country was over, Mr Butler said the Spanish situation was one of the questions being discussed in the Italo-British negotiations, ’ which were still proceeding, and he was not in a position at this stage to make any statement. The Prime Minister said a statement on the progress of the Anglo-Italian conversations would be made at the earliest possible moment.