The Spanish situation : inter-departmental correspondence ; Dispatch on the Spanish situation

              I.C.3.
TRADES UNION CONGRESS GENERAL COUNCIL.
INTER-DEPARTMENTAL CORRESPONDENCE.
From HERBERT TRACEY 
To SIR WALTER CITRINE 
Department  PUBLICITY
Date 17th August 1936
SUBJECT.
THE SPANISH SITUATION.
For Mr. Gillies to see.
The attached is a dispatch from Victor Schiff which reached the "Daily Herald" last night (Sunday).     It was handed to me by Gordon Helsby as the D.H.  (and Schiff) were anxious that you should read it.     Helsby, who is in charge of the D.H. decided not to publish it, partly because it would furnish arguments to sympathisers of the rebels, and partly because it would dishearten sympathisers with the Government by suggesting serious divisions amongst the Government's supporters.     I think myself it is a rather febrile message and the foundation for it doesn't seem to be very firm - more in the way of anticipation than of actual difficulties at the moment.     Schiff went back to Paris to put it over.