§ Lieut.-Commander Fletcherasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether in any cases the insurgent authorities at Bilbao have forbidden British business men with interests in Bilbao to return there?
§ Viscount CranborneA few of the British members of the staff of companies operating in Bilbao were able to return to their posts after the capture of that city by Nationalist forces. The decision was subsequently taken by the Salamanca authorities not to allow any persons of foreign nationality to return to Bilbao pending the return to more normal conditions. His Majesty's Ambassador at Hendaye has made representations to the competent authorities at Salamanca with a view to obtaining permission for British members of companies operating in Bilbao to return to their work.
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§ Colonel Burtonasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he can state the names of the various countries which are members of the Non-Intervention Committee; and what effective strength each nation could provide in naval, army, and air force, men and equipment?
§ Mr. EdenThe following list of the 27 countries represented on the committee, comprises, with one exception, all the European countries possessing diplomatic representatives at the Court of St. James. As regards the second part of the question, I would refer my hon. and gallant Friend to the information contained in the Armaments Year Book for 1936, copies of which were placed in the Library of the House on 3rd November last.
The 27 countries are as follow:
United Kingdom. Union of Soviet Albania. Socialist Re- Belgium. publics. Czechoslovakia. Denmark. Estonia. Finland. France. Germany. Greece. Hungary. Irish Free State. Italy. Latvia. Lithuania. Luxemburg. Netherlands. Norway. Poland. Portugal. Rumania. Sweden. Turkey. Austria. Yugoslavia. Bulgaria.