Truce for Direct Talk To Assist Arms Plans Between Antagonists May Be Sought Soon London, June 2, The British Government is considering the possibility of political intervention in Spain with the object of effecting a truce to enable the-Spanish Republican Government and the Nationalists to meet at the conference table, according to articles by diplo-marie correspondents in this morning's newspapers.
Such action, the correspondents, state, would follow successful application of the British proposals for withdrawing foreign volunteers from Spain, It is pointed out that the Spanish conflict, which, according to the belief prevailing some months ago, could not continue much longer, still lies athwart the road to general European appeasement and that it retards completion of the Anglo-Italian Agreement, The Government, it is suggested, projects the reopening of direct talks between Great Britain and Italy for a general understanding, but it is realized that a settlement of the Czechoslovakian problem is an essential preliminary. It is considered possible that such a settlement may be attempted through British mediation, London, June 1.
Speaking at Sheffield last night, Mr. Winston Churchill said that the Prime Minister, Mr. Neville Chamberlain had made clear his abhorrence of totalitarian tyranny in all its forms, He had declared his resolve to defend a free democratic parliamentary government and he had affirmed his loyalty to the Covenant of the League of Nations.
Upon these assurances, organized labour and especially skilled unions ought to throw their whole energies into the task of national defence, Mr. Chyrchill declared.
These. he said, were mot times when we could afford to have anything else than the full tide of national effort and he earnestly trusted that the discussions which were proceeding between the Government and the trade unions would soon reach a good working basis.—Wireless through Reuter.
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