London, Jan. 20. Demand for immediate action to end the policy of non-intervention in the Spanish war is contained in a letter sent to Mr, Neville Chamberlain, the Prime Minister, by the National Council of Labour which represents the Labour Party, the Trade Union Congress and the Parliamentary Labour Party.
The letter states:—"The continued denial by democratic governments of the right, under international law, for the Spanish Republican Government to purchase arms, while the dictator governments continue to assist the Spanish Insurgents, constitutes flagrant and one-sided bene-valence to the Fascist rebels."
In a further letter yesterday to Mr. Chamberlain, Mr. C. R. Attlee, the Leader of the Labour Opposition in the House of Commons, made a further appeal that Parliament be summoned without delay.
Mr. Attlee addressed a letter on the previous day to the Premier, asking the immediate summoning of Parliament, in view of the alleged continued supply of men and arms by Italy and Germany to the Spanish Nationalists. He said that he "feels that the Spanish situation is now so serious that urgent action on a large scale is imperative if wholesale starvation of women and children is to be avoided."
Accusing Mr.
Chamberlain of cringing and crawling before the dictators for months" Mr. David Lloyd George made a slashing attack on Mr. Chamberlain in a speech at Llandudno last night He declared that Mr. Chamberlain's visit to Rome only intensified the apprehensions and stark fears of war."
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