The Archive · 1937

No British Recognition of Insurgents

London, Feb. 6.

A question was asked inthe House of Commons to-day whether the government was prepared to reconsider the recognition of the "present ime of the left in Spain" since the {atest Information went to prove it represented not only a minority in that country but a minority "nance and directed by Moscow for many years."

Lord Cranborne, replying in the absence of the Foreign Secretary, Mr. Anthony Eden, said that the British Government was not prepared to Feconsider recognition.—" Wireless through Reuter.

A new antarctic land, consisting of a chain of mountains of which the highest peak reaches the altitude fof about 5,000 ft. has been discovered fand claimed for Norway by Winggo Wideroe, the noted Norwegian Siler, in the course of a series of exploration flights made by him ce-operation with the s. Thorshan, a Norwegian whaler now cruising in antarctic waters and which sent news of the discovery by wireless, A Norwegian flag was dropped by M. Wideroe from the plane while flying over the land.

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