telegrams to Gen. Franci the Nationalist leader. and Barcelona asking. for their agreement to the resolution adopted yesterday by the Non-Intervention Comimitte The draft resolution on the with Arawal of volunteers and belligertent rights was approved yesterday by plenary session of the Non-Inter= vention Committee—the first held in, months.
The Soviet Ambassador, M. Ivan abstained as before from voting on those parts of th text relating to belligerent rights.
The committee unanimously adopt= ed the sub-committee's two recommendations authorizing the chalrman, Lord Plymouth, forthwith to approach the two parties in Spain and providing for continued examination of methods of applying the resolution, pending the replies of the two partis, and considera tion of measures to meet the Soviet Union's abstention.
The Spanish parties are to be tasked to agree to withdrawal, under International supervision, of all non-Spanish combatants, and each to receive commission, to estimate the number of volunteers, to concert withdrawal "arrangements with the Spanish authorities, and to carry out, as determined' by the Non~ Tntervention Committee, withdrawls from both sides according to proportions of numbers serving on each side, 'The chairman is to Inform the factions that each of the none intervention Powers will grant them belligerent' rights according to the British plan of July last—that is, after withdrawals have made substantial progress and are proceeding satisfactorily.
The resolution further provides that sharily before the withdrawal begin, observation on the Franco-'Spanish and Portuguese-Spanish frontiers be restored and strenethened simultaneously with strengthen ing of sea observation. Also, each of
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