The question æf the withdrawal of foreign combatants, Mr. Eden said, was still before the Non-Intervention Committgg, and the Government earnestly hipped it might soon be possible to proceed further with He agreed thai the sea position must be remedied as soon as possible. As far as he was aware, there were no German warships in the Mediterranean. The gap on the east coast of Spain had not been filled, but elsewhere round the coast it was fully operative, It would not not be fair, Mr, Eden continued, to assume thai the Portuguese frontier was open. The Portuguese Government, he said. had not opposed the Angló-French proposal to fill the gap caused by the withdrawal of German and Italian ships from the control system.
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