Letter

              HOUSE OF LORDS
as from Mamhead Park,
Exeter,
South Devon.
August 15. 1936.
Sir Walter Citrine,
Transport House,
Smith Square, S.W.1.
Dear Sir Walter,
Yesterday morning Miss Wilkinson, Lord Churchill and myself had a long discussion at the Spanish Embassy in Paris with Senor Fernando de los Rios about the present situation in Spain.  We asked him whether the Spanish Government would welcome medical assistance and, if so, whether it was needed now or would prove more useful later on.  He answered that the moral effect as well as the material help of a British medical unit would be greatly valued by his Government, and that the sooner it could be sent to either of the hottest centres of fighting, in the Guadarrama Mountains north of Madrid and round Saragossa, the better from their point of view; he seemed to think that it would be a simple matter to provide it with accomodation and an adequate supply of food once it had reached its