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      reprisals. And it proclaims it with pride because this helplessness 
      arises not from the lack of insufficiency of technical means, 
      but from the firm decision of the Spanish Government not to commit 
      the monstrous action of taking reprisals against people innocent 
      of crime as in the Spanish population in the territory dominated 
      by rebels. But the origin of this same "helplessness" 
      which springs from the spirit of humanity and the sense of responsibility 
      of the Spanish Government, only augments the moral force of this 
      new appeal, which it directs to the spirit of fair play and the 
      traditional public uprightness of the British Government, to 
      put into action the fitting measures of pressure or persuasion 
      so as to bring to an end, once and for all, this spectacle of 
      the aerial bombardments of civil populations, which must daily 
      fill with horror and shame every clear conscience, and the continuation 
      of which would leave everyone covered with opprobrium before 
      judgement of history.
 
      
 
 
(5) The Spanish Government will not commit the impertinence 
      of pointing out which methods the Government of the United Kingdom 
      can apply with the greatest efficiency to attain this end, which 
      after all was the one inspiring its initiative when the British 
      Commission of Investigation was constituted. No one can doubt 
      that the Government of the United Kingdom has at its disposal 
      the means and resources to achieve and end so consonant with 
      its own policy and the unanimous opinion of the British nation. 
      So much more so when, in fact, everything depends on two Governments 
      with whom the British Government is linked by ties the cordiality 
      of which has been solemnly in recent declarations.