The Chairman will consider the machinery required to carry out the British plan but M. Ivan Maisky, the Soviet representative, demurred on the ground he had not agreed to the British plan and reserved the right to formulate reservations.
Mr. Anthony Eden, who acted as Chairman in the absence of Lord Plymouth, said if the next meeting made such a large advance, the problem would very largely be solved.
Count Dino Grandi, the Italian delegate, led @roceedings at yesterday's meeting.
In the course of a lengthy speech, which led to the ending of the deadlock, he announced that Italy agreed that an international. commission, entrusted with making arrangements for and supervision of the evacuation. of volunteers, should be immediately appointed and sent to Spain to ascertain the exact number of foreign nationals fighting with the two parties. This investigation should make it possible to decide in what manner and proportion the withdrawals should be made.
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