Mr. Chamberlain replied, "An oficial communication was asked by the lote Foreign Secretary and myself to be given us on Monday. As unofficial information had reached me on Sunday, I communicated this infor-motion, as I thought it my duty, to the Cabinet as a whole. It did not make any difference with regard to the decision. If it had been upon this information that the decision was to be taken I would have asked ihe /Italian Ambassador to det me have it before."
London, Mar, 1.
The usually well-informed diplomatic correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" declared this morning that the opening of Anglo-German deliberations is "as good as certain,"
The "Daily Telegraph" expects that the beginning will be made when in the very near future the former Goi man Ambassador in London, the. present Foreign Minister, Herr's Joachim von Ribbentrop, visits London. These deliberations are expected to run parallel- with the Anglo-Italian conversations,—Trans-Ocean Mr. Chamberlain emphasized that Mr. Eden had not objected to the way in which he received the formation. Mr. Chamberlain th refused to divulge the identity of the person who brought him the information. Thereupon Mr. J. J. Davidson, Labour member for Maryhill, Glasgow, asked, "Is the identity of this person known to the members of the Cabinet or to the Foreign Secretary himself?
Mr. Chamberlain replied, "No, Sir." He added that he himself did not know his identity, but only guessed it.
Thereupon Mr. John Parker,
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