In normal times a considerable part of the total British trade with Spain was carried on with the same area, which took large quantities of coal from south Wales. These British interests had suffered from the existence of the civil war, and the resulting difficulties had become increasing ly acute from the absence of regular means of contact with the Nationalist authorities, in which matter the British Government had been, throughout the past year, at greater disadvantage than any other Power with large interests in that part of Spain The possibility of transferring sular officers fr ports where they functioned to Salamanca c Burgos was dismissed because their ppointment with new commissions from the King and the sant to them of an exequatur by the Salamanca authorities would have implied a measure of recognition of those authorities.
After mature consideration, the Institution Moves From
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