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The complex question of volunteers was debated throughout the war, but although the British Government had played an important part in the endeavour to reach a solution, the responsibility for that problem had rested squarely with the NIC at least until the last months of the war. However, parallel to and connected with that topic ran the issue of the legal recognition of the rebels, and here it was not possible to hide behind the NIC, for responsibility for such a decision could rest only with the British Government.
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Notes to Chapter 6
See below pp. 193 and 213–14. For first-hand accounts of Anglo-Spanish relations see Sir Robert Hodgson, op. cit.; Sir Maurice Peterson, Both Sides of the Curtain ( London: Constable, 1959 ).
Viscount Templewood, Ambassador on Special Mission ( London: Collins, 1946 ).
A good general guide to the question of recognition can be found in J. G. Starke, An Introduction to International Law ( London: Butterworth, 1958 ) pp. 105–32.
In this case, W. E. Hall, A Treatise on International Law (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1924).
John Westlake, International Law, part I-Peace (Cambridge University Press, 1904).
W. B. Laurence (ed.), Wheaton’s Elements of International Law, ( Boston: 1863 ) Little, Brown & Co.
Viscount Cecil, A Great Experiment ( London: Cape, 1941 ) p. 282.
Notably by Herbert Southworth, La Destruction de Guernica ( Paris: Ruedo Iberico, 1975 ).
William Bowman, History of The Times, vol. IV, part ii, 1921–1948 (London: Times Publishing Co., 1952 ) pp. 906–7.
Robert Rhodes James (ed.), Chips: The Diaries of Sir Henry Channon ( London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1967 ) p. 79.
Keith Middlemas and John Barnes, Baldwin ( London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1969 ) p. 987.
Colin Seymour-Ure, The Press, Politics and the Public ( London: Methuen, 1968 ) p. 29.
F. Gannon, The British Press and Nazi Germany (London: Oxford University Press, Oxford 1971) for an excellent survey of the British press of the period.
Hugh Dalton, Memoirs, 1931–1945: The Fateful Years ( London: Muller, 1957 ) pp. 97–101.
C. R. Attlee, As It Happened (London: Heinemann, 1954).
Basil Liddell Hart, The Defence of Britain ( London: Faber, 1939 ) p. 59.
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Edwards, J. (1979). British Recognition of Franco. In: The British Government and the Spanish Civil War, 1936–1939. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-04003-2_6
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