Rome, Oct. 10.
Well-informed circles here describe the Italian reply as "constructive, While not yielding an inch in Italy's determination to defeat Bolshevism in Spain, the Note is said to keep the ball rolling by proposing further talks in the Non-Intervention Committee, The responsibility for taking the next step is thus left, in the opinion of Italians, firmly in French and British hands, If the Franco-Spanish frontier is opened, it is stated, a European war will hang by a thread—Reuter, "Italy Evades Issue"
Paris, Oct. 10.
Italy is evading all practical means to bring about the evacuation of foreign combatants from Spain, authoritative circles here declared yesterday, commenting on the Italian' rejection of the Franco-British proposal to participate in tripartite negotiations with a view to solving the Spanish problem, They added that the Italian reply thereby justifies the information according to which Rome had decided to make a military effort to assure General Franco's victory and place other powers before an accomplished fact.
These circles expressed the opinion that France and Great Britain would never admit the crushing of the Spanish nation by a foreign army, since it would be an "unacceptable mockery," as the French Foreign Minister, M. Yvon Delbos had stated in Geneva. Secondly, France and Great Britain may envisage the termination of non-intervention provided it is simultaneously decided upon by the two powers, The end of non-intervention, they concluded, does not mean that France and Great Britain will intervene directly, but that they will adopt new methods for reaching the same objects, which are the evacuation of foreign combatants from Spain and the liberation of the Mediterranean.
—Havas.
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