400 Spanish Children will spend part of the summer in England

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Mid fractious relations across the continent, British prime minister Stanley Baldwin was keen to avoid involvement in the conflict and, along with his French counterpart Leon Blum, called for European powers to agree to a non-intervention policy, which was signed in September 1936.

However, signatories Germany and Italy "flagrantly flouted" it, says historian Adrian Bell, by sending military support to Nationalist leader General Francisco Franco, while the Soviet Union - also a party to the agreement - aided the Republicans.

"There's no doubt at all that the Germans regarded it as a kind of laboratory [for]
After arriving in Southampton on 23 May, the children were sent to a campsite set up by volunteers in nearby Eastleigh.

Speaking in the BBC documentary The Guernica Children in 2005, Carmen Antolin recalled: "We got on the double-decker bus and as we were approaching the camps… we thought, 'All these tents, it must be [Native American] Indians' and we thought, 'Oh, we didn't know they had Indians'."

The refugees were split into three areas according to their parents' registered political affiliations: Republican, Communist and Nationalist.

While the children's health improved - thanks to food donations from locals - there were inevitable concerns about the psychological state of refugees separated from their families and homes. The problems were exacerbated because few British volunteers were able to speak Spanish while most evacuees didn't know English.

When the Basque Country surrendered to Franco's forces later in 1937, children at the camp broke down in tears, worried about their parents. Some even caused a "small riot", one evacuee recalled.
On 21 May 1937, about 3,860 children packed the ship Habana in Bilbao. They were accompanied by about 200 teachers, priests and other helpers.

Many of the children were told they would only be staying for three months.

Mrs Patchett, who was six years old at the time, joined her eldest brother and two of her sisters on the journey to Southampton.

"My mother and everyone where the Habana was docked was crying and sobbing, and we were terrified, we didn't know where we were going," she recalls.

"We were told on the boat that Franco's warships were nearby... the captain asked

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