FOREIGN ACTIVITIES IN SPAIN

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20763, 25 June 1937, Page 9

FOREIGN ACTIVITIES IN SPAIN

ITALO - GERMAN

PACT AMERICAN SENATOR’S ATTACK GERMANY’S OFFICIAL STATEMENT United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph— Copyright (Received June 24, 8.10 p in.) WASHINGTON, June 23. Addressing the Senate, Senator Borah said that an adequate army and Bavy were needed to protect the United Btates against possible forces from within the walls, from without the nation. He denounced in most bitter terms Hitlerism and Fascism. “The Governments of Germany and Italy," said Senator Borah, “are carrying on a war against the Spanish Government. The guns and men which massacred the people of Guernica were furnished by the German and Italian Governments. The bases of the principles of Nazism and Fascism are duplicity and deception. There was no law and no liberty in Germany, where men and women are hunted like wild beasts.” RIGHTS OF SPANISH LOYALISTS SUPPORT OF BRITISH LABOUR United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright (Received June 24, 8.10 p.m.) LONDON, June 23. The British Trades Union Council executives, the National Labour members and the Parliamentary Labour Party have Instructed their delegates to the Labour-Socialist International Conference at Paris on June 24, to advocate the reference of the Spanish question of the League of Nations and to demand the restoration of the right of the Loyalist Government forces to buy arms. DIPLOMATIC EXCHANGES MR EDEN’S STATEMENT IN PARLIAMENT British Official Wireless RUGBY, June 23. In the course of a statement in the House of Commons on the withdrawal of Germany and Italy from the Spanish naval control scheme, Mr Anthony Eden (British Foreign Secretary) said the British Ambassador in Berlin had seen Baron von Neurath concerning the matter, and had been informed that the German Government regretted that it had not been possible to reach agreement, and Germany, therefore felt obliged to withdraw Its ships, altogether from the control system. Baron von Neurath said this action was being taken with the specific intention of avoiding the possibility of the aggravation of the situation, and the German Government would confine itself to this action. “The British Government gladly recognises and welcomes the motives which inspire this assurance." “I understand further." added Mr Eden, “that the German Government does not contemplate ceasing participation in the Non-Intervention Committee. The Italian Ambassador has since been to see me, when he informed me that his Government had also decided to withdraw Its ships from the control scheme." In answer to a question. Mr Eden agreed that the withdrawal of the Germans and Italians from the naval control left questions to be considered, but Insisted that the important point was the assurance given the British Ambassador that the German Government would confine Itself to withdrawal from the naval patrol, following the failure of the consultative procedure in the Leipzig case. He told Mr Lloyd George that as he understood It, Germany and Italy were withdrawing only from participation In the naval control, and the non-intervention agreement Itself was unaffected.