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CHAMBER ©J? DSPUTJfS \N UPROAR kept the Chamber in an uproar a speech demanding that France refrain from intervention in Spain whatever Italy should <fo. M. Blum, who was Premier Jfhett non-intervention was adopted interposed passionately, declaring that the decision was made in the hope tb<jt the policy would be reciprocal and not degenerate into miserable, bloody hypocrisy in which Franca refrained from supporting one side while the other received all the help it wantejd. M. Flandin declared that French intervention would only lead to increased intervention from the other side, and finally to o world war. It wqs France’? duty to {remain neutral wo r 4 recognise the belligerent rights of \solb sides They then coul<} approach whatever Fpanif-b Government emerged from the conflict.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 18 January 1939, Page 12
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