London, Nov. 24, The General Council of the Trades Union - Congress, which met yesterday, sent a telegram to the Prime Minister, Mr. Neville Chamberlain, in Paris, expressing concern at reports suggesting the granting of belligerent rights to the two sides in the Spanish civil war and urging him not to be a party to such a proposal, "No," replied Mr. R. A, Butler, Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, when asked in the House of Commons yesterday whether the British Government had recently made approaches to both sides of Spain with a view to obtaining a settlement of the Spanish dispute.
When asked why no approaches had been made, Mr. Butler declared that the Government would be only too pleased to see an end to the conflict but it had not found, up to the moment, a suitable opportunity for taking the steps suggested—Reuter.
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