Moscow, July 17.
Commenting on the British plan, "Lvestià writes: "The British Gove ernment took upon itself an extremely thankless task—to reconcile all differences lately revealed in the course of the development of the Spanish conflict. The compromise is an attempt to reconcile the irreconoilable and create an illusion thet the question is solved only in order to preserve the appearance of the continuation of the policy of non-inter" vention. The members of the London Committee express their readiness to accept the British plan as a basis for negotiations, but it by no means follows that all members of the Committee agree with the individual cie uses-of the plan.
The newspaper notes that, "in order to hold under control the part of the coast occupied by the rebels it would be necessary to station a whole army of observers, which can. hardly be done in practice. In the ports óceupied by the rebels the observers will really be representatives of countries not participating in the Spanish conflict, while in ports of the Spanish Government there would be legally installed a whole army of Italian and German spies working in General Franco's interests. The recognition of the rebels as belligerents is already in itself an act of intervention in the internal affairs of Spain benefitting the rebels. It seems that the British plan proposes that the London Committee appear in the role of an international which generously grants virtual recognition to a band of rebels at the demand of two Fascist countries, None gave the London Committee such powers, and it was not for these ends that it was formed, "There is no question that the foreign troops must be immediately withdrawn from, Spain, But in the form in which this demand is refracted in the British plan it only (Continued on page 16)
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