EMPIRE TRADE ROUTE
MEDITERRANEAN’S VALUE
BRITAIN’S ATTITUDE STATED
INTERESTS BEING WATCHED. (United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (British. Official Wireless.) Received July 19, 10.15 a.m. RUGBY, July 18. Sir Philip Sassoon, First Commissioner of Works, speaking at Leyland, Lancashire, remarked that as a nation and an Empire we were deeply concerned in anything that might affect the balance of Power in the Mediterranean. . “Our disinterestedness in the Spanish struggle does not and cannot mean that we disregard our own vital interests in the Empire trade routes which pass through the Mediterranean,” he said. “In so far as the land and sea frontiers of Spain touch upon these routes, we are vitally concerned in maintaining the territorial integrity, ot Spain. 1 earnestly believe that a clear understanding of the British attitude towards Spanish integrity at this juncture is in the best interests of peace to-day.”
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 195, 19 July 1937, Page 7
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144EMPIRE TRADE ROUTE Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 195, 19 July 1937, Page 7
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