NON-INTERVENTION PACT

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19132, 29 September 1936, Page 6

NON-INTERVENTION PACT

SPANISH CIVIL WAR PLANS OP COMMITTEE METHOD WITH PROTESTS (British Official Wireless.) Recti;. 1.15 p.m. RUGBY, Sept, 28.. A Portuguese representative was. present at tho fourth meeting of tire international committee for fie applies-: ti.on of tin* agreement, regarding nonintervention in tho civil war in Spain. The committee agreed that it should at once lay it down ns a. matter of principle that complaints regarding, alleged breaches of the agreement could only he considered if the complaint were submitted on behalf of a Government of one or other of the countries which are parties to the agreement. The committee was confident that no Government would take it. upon itself to submit a complaint unless it. had taken •steps to ascertain that, in fact, there was some substance in the complaint, and that the complaint was of sufficient importance to justify its being brought before the committee, though it would clearly he impossible for such a. Government to determine beyond all possible question whether or not a breach of the agreement had been made. Tho committee agreed that, upon the receipt of a. complaint, the chairman should communicate it to the representative of the Government of the country against which it was levelled with the request that the Government should supply iho committee with such explanations 'as were necessary to establish the facts. ' On receipt of tho observations of the Government against which a complaint hacl been preferred, the committee should take steps to establish the facts.