Turning to the request of the Non-Intervention Committee to Britain to propose a scheme for dealing with the Spanish problem, Mr. Chamberlain said that such a tribute had never before been paid to the impartiality and sincerity of a great Power.
The task they were asked to undertake was one of great difficulty and delicacy, but in the interests of general peace the Government undertook it, and with promptitude produced a series of proposals which, ha was glad to say, had been accepted by all nations as a basis of discussion.
The only objector, the Prime Minister concluded, was His Majesty's Opposition in the House of Commons, who, however, suffered humiliation in having to talk out its own motion. Reuter.
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