NO ASSURANCE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 February 1939, Page 5

NO ASSURANCE

THAT HOUSE OF COMMONS WILL BE NOTIFIED PRIOR TO RECOGNITION OF FRANCO. PRIME MINISTER AGAIN QUESTIONED. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10.18 a.m.) RUGBY, February 14. The question of General Franco’s recognition was again raised in the House of Commons, when Mr C. R. Attlee asked the Prime Minister (Mr Neville Chamberlain) by private notice, “whether, in view of the important issues involved, any decision, conditional or otherwise, to recognise the Spanish insurgent authorities as the de facto or de jure Government of Spain, will be communicated to the House before any action is taken thereon, with a view to an early debate.” Mr Chamberlain replied: ‘The Government will naturally communicate to the House at the earliest possible moment any decision at which it may arrive. I cannot give any assurance that it may be possible for them to delay taking any action which may seem to them proper, but it always is within the power of the Ijouse to express its opinion ot the Government’s policy, and should the Government reach any new decision 1 shall naturally be ready to afford facilities for a debate.”

ATTITUDE OF FRANCE RECOGNITION ON TERMS. M. BERARD GOING AGAIN TO SPAIN. (Received This Day, 9.50 a.m.) PARIS, February 14. Cabinet has not decided upon the question of recognition of General Franco. M. Berard is going to Spain to continue his mission. It is understood he will negotiate for recognition on a basis of the repatriation of volunteers and the integrity of Spanish territory.