In reply Sir John Simon, Chancellor of the Exchequer, said that some twenty states had recognized the Italian conquest of Abyssinia before Great Britain raised the matter at Geneva and took the proper course of consulting the League and not making a private special bargain.
"Even now," he declared, "me have noL recognized the conquest, but have made it clear that certain. conditions must be fulfilled before we did so."
Italian assurances," he asserted, "have hitherto been implemented. They have made a withdrawal of troops from Libya, have stopped the Bari broadcasts and have ce-operated with the Non-Intervention Committee."
It was never a part of the bargain, Sir John Simon added, that Italian action in Spain should be unilateral without regard to what others might do.—Reuter.
Rome only, but suspect influential elements in France itself.
It is reported, for example, that M. Eduard Daladier, the Premier, is prepared to placate Holy by the immediate appointment of an Ambassador, but has judged it advisable to refrain owing to the oppo Left Wing circles—Reuter.
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