A great deal will depend on whether any further help
from outside gets in to either side in Spain, and on whether the foreign forces already there are withdrawn. Both Germany and Italy long ago declared themselves in favour of the latter principle, but their representatives on the non- intervention committee now decline to discuss it unless the sequestration of the gold deposits said to have been placed abroad by the Spanish Government is discussed simultaneously. That proposal the Russian representative is resolutely resisting, and deadlock on both points prevails. But the control arrangements are now at work, and Lord Cranbome repeated in the House of Commons on Wednesday that there had been no known violation of the non-inter- vention agreement since it came into force on February 20th. It appears that either before or after that date the Valencia Government offered in effect to put Spanish Morocco at the disposal of Great Britain and France on condition those countries could secure the withdrawal of all foreign volunteers from Spain. The offer could obviously not be accepted without a breach of the non-intervention agreement, and it has been declined. But the future of Spanish Morocco is a question to which some thought must be given. If the Republican Government wins it may be anxious to rid itself of the Morocco incubus and there will be no lack of aspirants to possession of the territory.
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