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EDEN'S FORMULA QUEST
Non-Intervention Plan Conferences In London DECLINES TO GIVE ANY HINT OF TREND IN NEGOTIATIONS
London, To-day.
Lisbon Protest
Objects To French Comparison
Lisbon, To-day.
In the course of a long statement in the House of Commons yesterday on the non-intervention discussions of last week, the Foreign Secretary, Mr. Anthony Eden, announced that while conscious of the difficulty of
An energetic protest against their task in accepting the mandate to seek agreement on non-interven-French action in suspending inter- the Franco- tion and the fact that its realisa-national control. of tion must depend on a greatly in- Spanish frontier is contained in creased measure of international an official newspaper. co-operation, they considered
their duty to accept.
it The paper says that control of the French and the Portuguese fron- tiers are two entirely different mat- theters and that Portugal- had no in- border |ternational control of her
but merely British observers, with an entirely different mission to It was the Government intention perform than that of the control offi to make a report to the non-inter-cials stationed along the Pyrenees,
They were fully aware of urgency of the problem and were! at present actively engaged on the necessary work.
vention committee this week.-Reu- ter.
FRIDAY FIXED
Friday next has been fixed as the date for the meeting of non-inter- vention committee at which the Bri- tish Government will report on the mandate entrusted to it of finding a solution to the present deadlock over the Spanish sea observation scheme.
The Foreign Secretary, Mr. Eden when questioned on the subject in the Commons, said the Government were conscious of the difficulty of their task.
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The paper is mystified as to how France can justify her attitude by reference to Portugal. Ocean.
Mr. Eden Holds Conference.
Trans-
New Plan Expected
To Result
London, To-day.
·Mrs. James Roosevelt, mother of President Roosevelt, who arriv-
ed in Genoa for an extended holiday in Italy yesterday.
THREAT VARA OUT
ences of opinion are greater than is, Government's step did not mean ac- In his endeavour to find a solu-thought.
tual rejection of non-intervention, it will nevertheless make all future tion to the non-intervention crisis, the Foreign Secretary, Mr. Eden, The "Lokal Anzeiger" shares the work more difficult
Great significance is attached to held a number of conferences: with opinion of the general German Foreign Office officials and also press, its Monday night edition the expressions of satisfaction on Valencia Govern- Referring to the announcement with representatives of the foreign bearing the headline "France car-the part of the by the French Government that as Powers interested. The new plan, ries out her threat."
ment, prominently featured in the from to-morrow. they will suspend it is stated will not be ready until
press. The “Nachtausgabe" is of the Paris Popular - Front facilities now afforded to foreign Wednesday or Thursday, and until opinion that, even if the French Trans-Ocean. observers on the Franco-Spanish then the utmost secrecy is to be frontier unless the control on the maintained. Portuguese frontier has been pre-
In answer to a question by Major viously re-established, Mr. Eden said
Opposition, that observers would be allowed to Attlee, Leader of the
Mr. Eden declared that the British. remain at their posts and that mean- while all French decrees still re-Government would be ready to an- nounce the plan by Friday, and main in force.
that proposals would be formulat- ed as rapidly and effectively as possible.-Trans-Ocean.
NO INFORMATION
questions
When supplementary were addressed to him regarding the nature of the British proposals to be put before Friday's meeting, Mr. Eden declined to give further in- formation...:
In answer to other questions re- lating to the Spanish war, he said he was fully alive to the importance of getting non-Spanish volunteers out of Spain and of establishing an air control and a
be administer partially.
German-Criticism Of France
.. Open Intervention
Allegation
Berlin, To-day.
"In spite of her platonic assur- ances, that the Franco-Spanish aval control to border will remain closed, France It has capitulated to those elements was the desire of the British Gov which favour an open intervention ernment he stated in reply to a on behalf of the Valencia Govern- further. question, that the Consul ment," declared the "Berliner Tage- blatt yesterday in an outspoken article on the French action.
should return to Bilbao as soon as possible and an official had already proceeded to that city in order to take possession of the Consular off ces and archives,
BILBAO'S MINES
With reference to
"The situation on the Pyrenees frontier cannot be compared with that existing on the Portugese frontier," the paper concludes.
The
the Bilbao tungo che Allgemeine Zei-
Mines, Mr. Eden stated that
that, due to the fact no that the Non-Intervention Commit- negotiations had so far as he was tee will not meet before Friday, aware been started between General the French
demands cannot be
Franco and the representatives of dealt with within the time limit. the British interests concerned. -British Wireless.
The paper thus comes to the opin- lion that the Franco-British differ-
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