"A communication has been handed to me by the Italian Ambassador." Mr Chamberlain declared, "in which the Italian Government accepts the British formula concerning the withdrawal of foreign volunteers and the granting of belligerent rights, as a gesture of goodwill for the opening of the conversations,"
He told the House that the British Ambassador in Rome (Lord Perth) would be instructed to come to London for the fullest instructions so that the Anglo-Italian conversations could be opened with Count Ciano, the Foreign Minister, at once.
The Prime Minister added that he had impressed certain points on the Italian Ambassador, These were:
1. The British Government regarded ihe settlement of the Spanish question essential to any ogreement; 2'"The British were loyal members of the League of Nations. They would Gesire to obtain the League's approval for any agreement; 3. If they Were able to recommend an agreement for approval, the situation in Spain must not have been materially altered during the conver tions, either by the sending of fresh Italian reinforcements to General France or by the failure of the Italians to implement the arrangement contemplated by the British formula.
Finally, Mr. Chamberlain continued, he told the Italian Ambassador that (Continued on Page 6)
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