For practical reasons, Mr. Eden said, it might be that, at some stage of the "conflict, belligerent. rights Would have to be accorded. If other signatories of the nob-intervention agreement had~strietly enforced the provisions of the pact, the present case could not have arisen, because there could have been no possibility of British ships taking arms from foreign country to Spain, Whereas we are trying to prevent British ships from carrying arms from foreign ports," the Foreign Secretary, proceeded, "ships of certain foreign countries are carrying their own arms, We have evidence of breaches of the agreement by certain Referring to the suggestion thut the exclusion of the carriage of arms to Portuguese ports from the scope of the prohibition favoured the Insur-genre, Mr. Eden recalled that the international non-intervention corns mittee had dismissed, as unproved, the only two accusations brought against the Portuguese Government, He informed the House that {clegraphic inquiry addressed to His Majesty's representative in Lisbon had elicited " reiteration of previous assurances that he had no evidence of a violation of the agreement by Portugal.
"Nations which ave failing strictly to observe the agreement," Mr. Ede declared, "are doing a disservice to the peace of Europe,
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