AIR AID TO SPAIN

Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 151, 29 June 1938, Page 13

AIR AID TO SPAIN

VERY DIFFICULT TO CONTROL (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, June 27. Asked in the House of Commons today whether the recent agreement for the evacuation of foreign troops from Spain included measures for international control of the passage of aircraft and air personnel into Spain, the Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Mr. R. A. Butler, said it was extremely difficult to make such control effective. As regards air personnel, he said,those fell in the category of volunteers whom the countries which were parties to the agreement had already undertaken to preverit from proceeding to Spain. In another answer Mr. Butler said that the undertaking already given by the Italian Government that no war material would be sent to Spain would be reaffirmed in a draft resolution now under examination by the Non-inter-vention Committee. He said he was unaware that Italian aeroplanes had, as suggested in the question, been travelling from Italian territory to bomb

towns in Government-controlled areas. The undertakings to which he already referred undoubtedly covered such activities.