Letters : International Brigade Association

              International
VT/AEC/EE/51
27th September, 1950.
Mr. A.R. Griffith,
Exeter & District Trades Council,
Ty Hen,
14, Devonshire Place, 
St. James,
EXETER.
Dear Mr. Griffith,
International Brigade Association,
Many thanks for your letter of September 25th from which I note that your Trades Council has received a circular from the International Brigade Association requesting them to approve a resolution of protest concerning recent arrests in France, and taking the opportunity to appeal to your Trades Council for financial assistance.
The International Brigade Association is a communist controlled body, and therefore its approaches and appeals should not be considered by your Council.
I appreciate your Council's action in requesting advice in this connection.     The arrests to which reference is made will be those undertaken by the French government, as a security measure, of foreign communists who had abused the hospitality they had received in France to interfere in that country's internal affairs.
I may inform your Trades Council our Spanish trade union colleagues whose headquarters are outside Spain at Toulouse do not condemn the French government for their action in this connection.
Yours sincerely,
GENERAL SECRETARY.