As was to be expected. the debate on Spain was
a much more lively affair. Opinion was not so divided as might have appeared, for no speaker challenged the desirability of non-intervention provided it could be made effective. Nevertheless the clash of rival ideologies, which Mr. Eden again deplored, was evident throughout. the evening. The Foreign Secretary himself spoke with more vigour than usual, and his appeal to Germany to choose the path of " full and equal co-operation " was a fine piece of sustained eloquence. He was less effective in dealing with the Foreign Enlistment. Act. Mr. Attlee complained that the Foreign Secretary was so anxious to preserve complete impartiality that he invariably treated the Government of Spain and that. of General Franco side by side, as Governments of equal validity. But the most notable speech of the day came from Mr. Grenfell, who was one of the party of M.P.'s which recently visited Madrid. After developing the theme that the war in Spain was not a class-struggle but that all those with whom he spoke genuinely believed that they were fighting for constitutional liberty, he ended with a sentence which crystallised the case for his side : " You cannot keep the peace of Europe if you give ground all the way to the Nazis and Fascists."
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