London, May 5.
HE British Ambassador to Italy, Sir Perey Loraine, who has been for some time home on leave, is returning to his post in Rome. Sir Percy was present at the discussions which Lord Halifax had a few weeks ago with British diplomatic representatives in south-eastern Europe. He had been specially summoned back to London for that purpose. He will therefore be able to give the Italian Government, should it so require, a further and more intimate account of the proceedings, the purpose of which must be already known to them through Sir Noel Charles, and the essence of which lies in the settled policy of Britain, defined in an official statement issued after the consultation at the Foreign Office as "the preservation of peace and the promotion of security in the Balkan and Danubian countries."
As Prof. E. Carr points out in an article in the "Sunday Times" today, that is of Italian interest no less than British. "Since the return to south-east European capitals of British diplomats who took part in the discussions with Lord Halifax, events in other directions have increased rather than diminished the anxiety which beset these states, It has been again demonstrated that neither strict neutrality nor nonprovocation, verging on- compliance,
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