FOREIGNERS IN SPAIN

Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 July 1938, Page 7

FOREIGNERS IN SPAIN

WITHDRAWAL RESOLUTION TEXT PUBLISHED IN BRITAIN PROPOSED CONCESSION OF BELLIGERENT RIGHTS CONTROL OF COMMISSIONS (British Official Wireless.) (Recd This Day, 10.40 a.m.) RUGBY, July 11.' A White Paper published tonight contains the text of proposed resolution reaffirming and extending the Non-Intervention Agreement and providing for the withdrawal of foreign volunteers from Spain', for the grant, in certain circumstances, of belligerent rights to the two Spanish parties and for observation of the Spanish frontiers by land and sea. An annexe to the resolution sets out in full details the measures to be taken to give effect to the resolution. The resolution notes that the governments that are parties to the Non-In-ervention Agreement deem it expedient to reaffirm the obligations entered into under the agreement, including those in regard to the export of arms and war material to Spain, and to the departure from and transit through their respective countries of foreign volunteers for Spain, and to extend those obligations to cover persons whose activities would in any way be susceptible of prolonging or embittering the present conflict. The resolution further declares that the governments deem it expedient to ensure the application of all nine points of the British plan of July 14, 1937, dealing with the withdrawal of foreign volunteers, the grant of belligerent rights, and the problem of control, with such additional measures as may be necessary to render control fully effective. The duties to be discharged in Spain in connection with the withdrawal of volunteers will be entrusted to two commissions attached respectively to the headquarters of the two Spanish parties.