* * * * Trade Unionists and Spain It is
difficult to divine, from the resolution on the subject adopted on Tuesday, precisely what the Trades Union Congress would do about the Spanish situation if it could have its way. The Congress is described in one quarter as taking a much bolder line than when it met a year ago, but a close study of the resolution shows that it amounts to no more than a demand that the prohibition on the sale of arms to the Spanish Government should be withdrawn, and that the League of Nations should be called on "to examine the problem in all its aspects and propose measures which will effectively safeguard the peace of nations and enable the Spanish people to recover their political and territorial independence." That, it may be observed, is little more than verbiage, and though one of the measures the League is called on to " propose" is the withdrawal of all foreign troops from Spain there is no reason adduced for hoping that more will be achieved in that direction at Geneva without Germany and Italy than has been achieved in London with them. Sir Walter Citrine, who moved the resolution in a skilful speech, showed himself alive to the danger of measures that might involve this country in a war to which the mass of its citizens would be wholly adverse. But the resolution should at least have the effect of guaranteeing the full support of the Trades Union Congress for any measures the Government may deem it necessary to take against piracy in the Mediterranean.
