Evening star., 1937-06-25
FRANCE WILL JOIN
BRITAIN IN FILLING
SEA PATROL GAPS
To Use Own Warships to
Replace Those Of Italy
and Germany.
COMMONS is SCENE
OF BITTER DEBATE
Chamberlain Asks English to
Keep Cool'-Lloyd George
Calls Program Farce"

BACKGROUND
Spanish Wdr, noW in its e1eventh
month, periodically has threatened
to spread beyond borders of nation
and engnlt most OF Europe.
Led by Britain, n1oues hare been
made to isolate struggle. Month";
teruentton Committee of 27 nations
Uas set up last Spring and reu-
traltty patrol placed in Spanish
Udters.
By the Associated Press.
LONDON. June 25.-Great Britain
and France have decided TO use their
own warships to fill the gap in the
'hands-of Spain sea patrol which
was created by Italo-German with
drawal, it was learned tonight.
This decision became known after
bitter full dress debate in the House
OF Commons in which Prime Minister
Neville Chamberlain and Foreign Sec
retary Anthony Eden insisted Britain
would push the principle of nor-in-
tervention in Spain through a 27.
power European agreement.
They asked Britain to keep cool"
over the protests of Liberals like David
Lloyd George, who cried that Italy
and Germany had made the non-in-
tervention idea a farce" and sug-
gested it might be a good idea to
scrap it.
Cites Soviet Shipments.
Eden took occasion to say that Soviet
Russia, too. had sent very large"
quantities Of arms to help government
Spain. Germany and Italy are on the
insurgent side.
The Franco-British move to extend
the supervisory warship Gordon by
themselves means they will take over
patrolling the eastern or government
held coast of Spain, where Germany
and Italy left off.
The Gordon is intended to help keep
foreign arms ships from delivering
their cargoes in Spain. Germany and
Italy washed their hands of the patrol
because the Spanish government 8
armed forces bombed their ships and
allegedly tried to torpedo the German
cruiser Leipzig. Italo- German ships
still are massed in the Mediterranean.
however.
France and Great Britain intend to
notify the Non-Intervention Commits
tee OF their plan at its next meeting.
Britain also is willing to consider the
placing of neutral observers on each
patrol ship. Italy and Germany still
are on the Non-Intervention Com
mittee.
Before Commons. Eden Joined
Chamberlain in urging a keep cool"
attitude toward Italo- German with
drawal from the Spanish neutrality
patrol.
Says Outlook "Not Hopeless"
With Chamberlain he stressed that
the outlook is mot hopeless; that
Italy and Germany still may stay
with the IS other nations who are
pledged to keep their hands out of
the Spanish civil war
Said dark-haired Capt. Eden:
I'VE know this (non-intervention)
policy has not worked satisfactorily.
But Mr.. Lloyd George has kept
Russia well in the background.
There is no doubt that war ma
terials. airplanes. tanks. and so forth,
supplied to the tSpanish) government
side from Russia have been large,
indeed.
Everybody knows it,
Despite these facts on both sides.
admittedly none Of this help reached
Bilbao (now conquered by the Span
ish insurgents. which Germany and
Italy are supporting. Non-interven-
ton has been in force for eight
months, all nations in Europe have
signed this agreement, and not one
has suggested denouncing it-not even
the Soviet government"
Opposition's Demand.
Cessation of the non-intervention
scheme, demanded by the Labor and
Liberal opposition, would raise the
question of granting belligerent rights
to the Spanish fighting forces, Eden
went on
This, he said, would create new
dangers.
He pictured situa ton where there
might be unlimited competition in
(see EUROPE, Page A-3.)