VISIT TO ROME

Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 January 1939, Page 7

VISIT TO ROME

BRITISH MINISTERS REPORT

TO CABINET

POLICY TOWARDS SPAIN.

DESIRE TO AID VICTIMS

OF CONFLICT.

(British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10 a.m.) RUGBY, January 18.

It is assumed that Mr Neville Chamberlain and Viscount Halifax gave a full account of the Rome conversations to today’s Cabinet meeting. Lord Halifax also was in a position to inform Cabinet of the views encountered at Geneva.

As “The Times” says: “Geneva is still the centre at which more personal contacts can be made in a shorter time than anywhere else.” “The Times” recalls that Lord Halifax made in clear at Geneva that the main concern of Britain in relation to the situation in Spain “always has been and is still to supply aid to the victims of the conflict, to circumscribe its incidence and hasten the day when Spain can once more play her proper part in world affairs.”

LABOUR DEMAND

IMMEDIATE MEETING OF PARLIAMENT.

NON-INTERVENTION AIDING FOREIGN AGGRESSION.

(Received This Day, 9.40 a.m.) LONDON, January 18.

The Leader of the Opposition, Mr C. R. Attlee has sent a letter to Mr Neville Chamberlain requesting the immediate summoning of Parliament, owing to the gravity of the Spanish situation. He declares that the continued use of Italian and German troops and munitions, to ensure the Italian intention that General Franco ishall be victorious proves that non-intervention is now only a method by which the Spanish Republicans are prevented from defending themselves against the aggression of foreign powers.