The Archive · 1937

Britain Supports Stand by Quai

London, Oct. 16.

Before the nine nations represented at the Non-Intervention: Committee meeting at the Foreign Office to-day, Count Dino Grandi, on behalf of Italy, put forward a new plan providing for the withdrawal of some of the volunt&ers from both sides in Spain.

Lord Plymouth and M. Charles Corbin, the British and French delegates, opened the meeting with their respective statements.

His Government, M. Corbin declared, considered ihe speedy implementing of the following five points essential:

Immediate withdrawal of volunteers; Granting of certain belligerent lits after the commission had t volunteers yere withdrawn from both sides satiate it ernments represented on the fuel with Vi cla Salamani Commit exercise their li ca it a short time a number of Volunteers should be withdrawn from either side, with proportions being taken into account:

That arrang nts be made to ensure of no new tures to Spain; and "That a system of control should be established on the lines of the van Dulm-Hemming Report.

If the above points could not be realized, M. Corbin stated, France felt constrained to resume full liberty of action,

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