Referring to the Anglo-Italian conversations, Mr. Chamberlain said that they had been carried a considerable distance, and the results were full of encouragement to those who, like His Majesty's Government, regarded appeasement in Europe as the objective to which the efforts of all men of goodwill should be directed.
Just before the conversations were opened, the Italian Government informed Britain of their acceptance of the formula for the withdrawal of volunteers from Spain and the granting of belligerent rights to the two parties in the Spanish civil war.
Turning to Spain, Mr. Chamberlain said that he was fully alive to the repeated serious infringements of non-intervention, but they still considered that non-intervention afforded the best means of avoiding a major conflagration.
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