DEADLOCK AVERTED

Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 108, 3 November 1937, Page 10

DEADLOCK AVERTED

RUSSIAN ATTITUDE

PLAN NOT TO BE KILLED

(Received November 3, 1.20 p.m.)

LONDON, November 2.

By today's decision, the Nomlnte* vention Sub-Committee averted a threatened deadlock, Italy, Germany. and Portugal waiving their objections, at least temporarily. The Sub-Commit-tee agreed that the chairman should seek from the Spanish parties concurrence to the withdrawal of volunteers under international supervision, and also to the proposal that commissions should go to Spain to estimate the numbers. ''"',_• It was also agreed that the chairman should inform them of willingness to grant belligerent rights as laid down in the British Plan. The iSub-Committee; decided, that from a" date to he decided upon by the full Committee observation on the frontiers should be resorted to, simultaneously with strengthened sea observation. ■' _- .: M. Maisky declared that the Soviet had not denounced non-intervention, but believed it had failed. "For the present," he said,."we won't kill the British Plan by a negative vote." ..■■■."'

When the meeting of the Sub-Com-mittee concluded on October 30, the position was that England, France, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, and Sweden had adopted the draft resolution; Germany, Italy, and Portugal supported it, but only provided a decision was unanimous; and the Soviet supported it, with a reservation Concerning belligerent rights. -' ''