Mr. Eden and Spain In the . debate in the House
of Commons on Monday Mr. Eden made one- of his usual well-balanced pronouncements on foreign Policy. He pressed home (though without the almost indecent exultation displayed by the Prime Minister in his Middlesbrough speech on Saturday) the point scored by the Government last week through the, failure of the Labour Party to challenge a division on Spain after they had moved the adjournment to discuss it ; and Lord Cranbome, In winding up the debate, was able to assure Mr. Churchill, whose anxiety was shared by the opposition, that the guns mounted by General Franco near Gibraltar were of inferior calibre to those in the fortress and constituted no menace to it. Interest then shifted to the Non-Intervention Committee, or rather to its working Sub-Committee, which had a long wrangle on Tuesday about " procedure." The French and Soviet Ambassadors wanted to discuss the withdrawal of foreign volunteers before discussing the re-establishment of control on the land frontiers. Germany and Italy wanted to stick to the order of the British plan in which control of land frontiers came before the withdrawal of volunteers. The discussion reached no concluiion. But it gave the..world a foretaste of the leisurely manner in which the Sub-Cominitn e's deliberations on the British plan are likely to proceed. • * * * *
