TRADE AGREEMENT SIGNED
- BRITAIN AND SPAIN NO POLITICAL SIGNIFICANCE MUTU AL BENEFITS TO BOTH COUNTRIES. Received Dec. 3, 8.15 p.m. MADRID, Dec. 2. A British-Spanish trade agreement was signed to-day by the British Minister in Madrid, Sir Samuel Hoare, and the Spanish Foreign Minister. Senor Serrano Suner. The Daily Telegraph says that it emphasised in London that the agreement is purely economic. There are no political clauses or understandings attached to it. Spain, nevertheless, is fully aware that the benefits of the treaty will cease if she throws in her lot with the Axis. General Franco, dictator of Spain, recently gave an assurance to England and the United States that Spain would not enter the war, or allow it to spread to the Peninsula,
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 84, Issue 285, 4 December 1940, Page 5
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