The Archive · 1938

Bill Assessed

Soviets Refuse to Pay Share to Fund for Withdrawals Cost

London, June 1

The Chairman's sub-committee of Pine Non-Intervention Comi ce met ai the Foreign Office yesterday afternoon and received a statement giving complete and comprehensive details of the cost of the scheme for the evacuation of foreign volunteers in Spain. All the representatives, ex cept the Russian, approved the scheme last Thursday.

After Lord Plymouth, the Chairman of the Committee, had intimated that the British Government was prepared to participate in providing ihe necessary funds on condition that other Governments also participated the representatives agreed to refer to their Governments the documents concerned.

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