Mr. Macdonald replied: "Obviously I cannot report on the nature of private and personal conversations but there is an answer on the attitude of the Dominion Governments to the cession of territories."
Commander Fletcher then asked:
"Was anything detrimental British trading interests revealed as a result of the conversations between Mr, Pirow and members of foreign governments'
Mr. MacDonald:
"Not that 1 am Signor Benito Mussolini that France aware of! cannot at present agree to any concessions to Ttaly unless Rome makes "a friendly gesture towards France," it was stated In authoritative quarters here today. Such a gesture was {held improbable in view of present circumstances, however.
Informed circles asserted that Mr.
Chamberlain wanted better Franco: Ualian relations when he visited Rome, and they added that it will now be dim cult for him to find basis for rapprochement between the two tountries—Havas,
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