unday Paper Mr. Chamberlain declared emphatically that he could not too strongly condemn the idea that il should be part of a deliberate policy to try to win the war by demoralizing the civilian population through the oees of bombing from the air.
That was absolutely contrary to International Law, he proceeded, and he gave it as his opinion that it was, in addition, a mistaken policy. He did not believe that deliberate atta on the civilian population would eve win the war for those who made it. chin Spain "Incidents"
After referring to the difficulties which arose in the practical application of the general rules he had enure having repeated the wish of the Government to produce practical proposals before approaching other Governments on the question, Mr, Chamberlain observed that he was bound to say that, in the ey of the British Government, fa many incidents had occurred both in China and Spain, where those general rules had been plainly disregarded.
The Prime Minister then turned to ihe question of attacks on British ships in ports in Government Spain.
He repeated that, after a careful and exhaustive examination of all possible methods of giving aid to tish ships attacked in territorial ators, the Government had come to the conclusion that it was impos:
do so short of intervening in the ar and cutting across the whole policy of non-intervention, which it had been following since the outbreak of the Civil War in Spain, Editor's Refusal to Give Eden Policy Continued
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