Unacceptable London, July 7.
The statement made in the House of Commons yesterday by the Prime "Minister, Mr, Neville Chamberlain, Who said that there could be no question of the Anglo-[taljan agreement being enforced before the settlement of the Spanish problem, Was a direct result of the Cabinet meeting held yesterday morning, "The Ministers ' agreed that the application of the agreement could not take place until the Spanish question was settled, Authorized circles here were unable to state whether a unilateral withdrawal of Italian volunteers from Spain independent from the general scheme would be considered by the British Government as justifying the enforcement of the agreement, but information received from Rome gives little hope for such initiative, Italy considers that such a gesture might remove from General Franco an important trump card in the negotiations on the withdrawal of volunteers and the recognition of belligerency rights,
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