Britain And France's Non-Intervention Agreement (1936)

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In August 1936 the Non-Intervention Agreement was signed by 27 countries. This agreement, initiated by Britain and France, sought to prohibit the delivery of war materials to Spain. Germany and Italy deliberately violated the treaty and continued to provide aid to the Nationalist army. Hence, Non-Intervention solely subjected the Spanish Republic to international isolation. At face value, British and French adherence to this agreement seems surprising and illogical. This paper will discuss the reasons why Britain and France adopted a policy of Non-Intervention.
A couple of days after the military coup Republican Prime Minister José Giral requested military assistance from France in order to crush the rebellion. Prime Minister Léon Blum, at the head of a newly-elected left-winged Popular Front government, initially seemed supportive of the idea and drew up a plan to send arms. Then, in August 1936, the French government sealed its southern border with Spain to prevent arms trafficking and declared that it would not interfere in the war. Additionally, it presented a Non-Intervention plan to Britain, Italy and
Despite Germany’s withdrawal from the League of Nations in 1933, their rearmament program which directly violated the Treaty of Versailles and Italy’s occupation of Ethiopia in 1935, Britain continued to appease the leaders in order to avoid conflict. Firstly, Britain was suffering from an economic crisis following the Wall Street Crash and the Great Depression making it extremely vulnerable in the event of a war. Additionally, Britain couldn’t reach out to anyone for support; the USA practiced isolationism and communist Russia wouldn’t make a good ally. Furthermore, the British people were against another conflict and were still recuperating from World War I. The aforementioned reasons explain the rationale behind British appeasement policy in the

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