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the fundamental policy intervention unless there should be a public or paramount reason for it. Such a reason, of course, could always be found by skilled legal advisers. Their various and differing defences of W.62.sintervention have set up a body of precedent and practical con- clusion almost unique în the

Notice To Contributors. All communications intended for case of Spain. She has had to publication should be addressed to undergo more meddling from the Editor, and be accompanied by outside nations than any coun- the Writer's Name and Address try in Europe, or perhaps in the not necessarily for insertion, but world, unless it be China. as a guarantee of good faith.

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Professor Jessup discusses the actual juridical questions relat fing to the Spanish civil war wi

absolute impartiality. He takes sides neither with the establish- ed Government mor, with the Rebels. But he does point out. clearly the consequences" to either as a result of foreign in- tervening.

When mere insurgency is re-

late Dr. Filomeno Maria Graca cognised it acquires a certai Ozorio wish to thank all their legal status. Insurgents against:- friends for the attendance at the a Government could not be treat- Funeral foral tributes and their eu as pirates if they captured a kind expressions of sympathy dur- Government ship. A much more important step is recognition of · ling their sad bereavement.

belligerency Belligerents are at once entitled to all their rights A much graver move was made by Italy and Germany when they recog

Hong Kong, Monday, February 22, 1937 under the laws of war.

NON-INTERVENTION nised General Franco's Govern

A REALITY

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ment as the only one able to maintain law and order in Spain.

But this whole tangle of legal Out of the distrusts, and

and Government... evasions which, turning into a perplexities mockery the international agree doubts was dealt with, on the ment for non-intervention in whole, in a most enlightened and Spanish affairs, threatened to humane way. Waiving all the spread the combat into wider doctrines of international law fields, there has now emerged a that might be invoked or in- generally endorsed control plan volved, Franco-British initiative which promises to work. All succeeded in obtaining general

intervene i countries have completed legis-agreement not to lation or issued decrees destroy-Spain, no matter on what pre- ling "volunteer” recruitment text or provocation.

campaigns at their source, while

the-frontier, land and sea, con- This agreement was not until trol scheme went into effect at this week-end made effective. different signatories dis- midnight on Saturday with the The

blessings of all who have been trusted each other's sincerity. indulging in mutual recrimina-

As it now stands, however, tions for weeks past Portugal's objection to international con this agreement to cease meddling trol of her frontier has been ad-jin Spain's domestic affairs has

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Sartorial Problem

From now on, while countries

The problem of political uni- of differing sympathies may watch each other intently to forms in Europe grows no sim- satisfy themselves that non-pler. A Dutch woman who was intervention of being observed in found wearing red trimmings on letter and spirit, there is proa black dress (the Dutch Nazi mise of Spain being permitted to colours) was ordered by a work out her own destiny and of Utrecht magistrate not to do it a relaxation of the general tenagam. She pleaded that it was an ordinary dress that she had been wearing for a year. Per Spain might be called the haps the magistrate was influ classic land of foreign interven-enced by the fact that she hap- tion. In an interestin

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