The Archive · 1937

Fault with Nyon Accord'

AIRCRAFT CE-OPERATION IN PATROL MOOTED

Geneva, Sept. 16.

The Nyon Conference will be reconvened here to-morrow to consider the question of the co-opera tion of aircraft in the anti-piracy patrol.

Strong criticism of the Nyon Agreement was voiced by Sr. Juan Negrin, Premier of the Valencia Government, at the meeting of the Council of the League of Nations today.

The position in the Mediterranean, he declared, had become intolerable owing to attacks on Spanish ships and the shipping of other nationalities.

The Spanish Government, he said, must energetically protest against questions concerning the Mediterranean being examined and decided in a conference at which Spain was not represented. Spain, Sr. Negrin continued, remained a Mediterranean Power and could not be excluded from the conference.

He added that the matter could not be solved by fiction and make-believe. They must have sufficient courage and loyalty to put the matter on a basis of reality.

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