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Document of the day - 3rd October

Volume 4
No. 369
Joseph P. Walshe (Dublin) to J.W. Dulanty (London)

Spanish Civil War
3rd October 1936

International Committee for the Application of the Agreement regarding Non-intervention in Spain
 With reference to the questions contained in Secret Document No. 30 N.I.S. 36 (20), I am directed to inform you that the date on which the measures prohibiting the export of arms to Spain became effective in the Irish Free State is the 25th August, 1936.

With regard to Question No.