The Archive · 1938

Commons Agenda for Week

According to present arrangements, the House will proceed after question time with the business of supply, discussing votes for He Colonial Office, and the Colonial and Middle Eastern Services, It is expected that the recent unrest in Jamaica, and the question of Palestine, will claim the principal attention of the House, On Wednesday, it is learned, the Board of Trade vote will offer an opportunity for the position regarding the Van Zeeland report to be raised, On Friday, when the vote for the Ministry of Transport is down for discussion, another report regarding which many members will be anxious io hear that action is contemplated and the Bressey report on the replanning of Greater London's traffic arteries, is expected to be the subject of debate—Reuter.

Allow for Unanimity London, June 13.

The Foreign Office is reported tol have instructed Sir Robert Hodgson, their Agent in Burgos, to protest to the Nationalist Headquarters ever the bombing of British ships in Spanish ports, In reply, Burgos is understood to have" declared that most of these vessels had "usurped British nationality to obtain impunity im smuggling arms,"

The Non-Intervention Sub-Committee is meeting probably on Thursday following soundings by Lord Plymouth, Chairman of. the Committee, on the possibility of the various Powers' accepting a corpromise as regards the restoration of control over Spanish ports so as {0 win over Soviet Russia.

It is understood Lord Plymouth's main efforts are directed at Italy, who wishes that the Anglo-Italian Agreement be ratified as soon as possible, Soviet quarters declare they will remain true to their previous attitude, Most observers, however, believe the Soviets will finally decide to abstain from the decisive ballot and will thereby permit that unanimity which is necessary for the materialization of the plan for the withdrawal of foreign volunteers from Spain,—

Havas.

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