Winding up the debate, Mr. R. A. Butler, Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, said that today's Non-Intervention Agreement had gone a long way. towards putting non-intervention into practice. The pian was to make it operate fairly on all sides.
The improved observation scheme, he canunned, would make it virtually impossible for a ship to enter a Spanish port without an observer or without being observed.
A Labour motion to reduce Foreign Office Estimates was defeated by 287 votes to 148,
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