NON-INTERVENTION

Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 112, 14 May 1938, Page 9

NON-INTERVENTION

SPANISH DEMAND IMMEDIATE ENDING DUEL' AT GENEVA LOYALISTS' PLEA DEFEATED ' (United Press Association—By , Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (Received May 14, 1 p.m.) GENEVA, May 13. 7 The Spanish delegate, Senor del Vayo, presented to the League Council a resolution demanding the immediate abandonment of non-inter-vention. This is tantamount to an appeaj to the Powers to release arms for Spain. Senor del Vayo created a sensation by stubbornly insisting on a decisive debate. The afternoon session developed into a duel with Senor del Vayo ' and M- Litvinov (Soviet Russia) against Viscount Halifax and M. Bonnet (France). The session wag adjourned to the evening' without a vote being taken. Senor del Vayo alleged that the construction of Italian and German aerodromes and long-range gun emplacements near the French frontier and Gibraltar, and the occupation of the Balearic Islands, the Canaries, and Spanish Morocco proved that the dictators -were determined to use Spain for future aggression. "What morality or Justice Justifies you in continuing to deprive a legal Government of its righto under International law?" he said. "If the question does not receive a satisfactory answer no one will be surprised if the Spaniards consider the conduct of England and France, the originators of nonintervention, as monstrous and inexplicable, construing therein an attempt to deliver them into the hands mi the dictators. Lord Halifax upbraided Senor del Vayo, declaring that it could not'be reasonably maintained that intervention "was designed only against the Spanish v Government. Britain would continue to seek withdrawals on both sides. The resolution was a direct negative of Britain's policy. NEED FOE UNBIASED INQUIRY. Replying in the evening, Senor del Vayo - said Lord Halifax's statement Showed that an unbiased inquiry was more necessary than ever. The volunteers with the Government forces did not exceed 6000. The Italians alone ; who were supporting the rebels were : still 100,000. The manner in which 1 the debate had-ended did not reflect i credit upon the League. 1 The voting was:—For the resolution, Russia and Spain; against, Eng- ' land, France, Poland, and Rumania. 1 Nine nations abstained. 1 "Nine abstentions; I believe in the J League again," was Senor del Vayo's i comment orr the vote. < Mr. W. J. Jordan, the New Zealand delegate, interviewed later, said that the League should not end non-inter-vention'but oblige all nations to respect it. I