London, Mar. 28.
The Chairman's Sub-Committee of the Non-Intervention Committee has been convened for Thursday morning for the first meeting of many weeks.
The purpose is understood to be to seek clarification of the position of the various governments on questions on the withdrawal of non-
Spanish nationals fighting in Spain and of the re-establishment of control Spanish Solution London, Mar. 28. by land and sea.
The Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Mr. R. A. Butler, was asked Italy is now ready to agree to the plan of speeding up the withdrawal of Italian volunteers from Spain, it is reliably reported here. She will also accept Britain's method of recognition of Ethiopia, to date one of the obstacles in the path of the Anglo-Italian parleys, as taking place through the League of Nations authorizing an acquiescence to existing conditions and contributing to relaxation of international tension.
Rome's good-will in the recent sessions is attributed by observers here to the rapid Nationalist advance in Spain. These opinions lead to the belief that the question of the withdrawal of volunteers will be raised "when the Spanish civil war is over, probably before the end of April.
A clause providing for the cessation of any form of Italian interference in Spanish affairs will be included in the Anglo-Italian accord, it is understood. Enforcement of this clause will not be difücult once the holocaust in Spain is over.
Italian legionaries in Spain will always remain a respectable distance from the French border, Italy is further reported to have: promised Britain. Unconfirmed despatches to this effect claim Rome has pledged this to avoid all possible incidents at in the House of Commons to-day if it was the practice of the Government to bring to the notice of the Non-Intervention Committee all ver-ifed breaches of the Non-Intervention Agreement.
Mr. Butler replied that the Government had asked the Non-Intervention Committee to investigate information regarding some thirteen alleged breaches of the Agreement. Experience gained in the early months of the Committee showed that it was not possible to bring home to the Governments concerned such alleged breaches and, since the observation scheme had been put into operation, there had not been the same necessity for individual governments to bring to the notice of the Committee any alleged breaches. The international board, he said, were clearly in a far better position to secure evidence.
The Minister strongly denied the suggestion of the Liberal Leader, Sir Archibald Sinclair, that the failure of the Government to bring such breaches before the Non-Intervention Committee was due to reluctance to have the Italian Government convicted.—Wireless Through Reuter.
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