ITALIAN GOOD FAITH
(British Official Wireless.)
•Fear'for Balearics Unfounded Mr Chamberlain Says ASSURANCES FROM ROME
(Rbceived 23> 11.30 a.m.) RUGBY, Oct. 22. Referring in the debate in the House of Commous on i'oreign affairs to the doubts thrown by Mr. C. R. Attlee, Leader of the Opposition, on the good faith of the Italian Government in connection with the offer contained in Count Grandi 's speech to the NonIntervention Committee, the Prime Minister said that if in foreign affairs they were always going to begin with 'the assumption that the other party would uot hold to anything it promisedthey were not likely to get anywhere. Dealing with the suggestion, widely held, that even if all went well with the control of volunteers, nevertheless, when the war was over, it might be found that the Italians were still in Spain and still in possession of some of the Balearic Islands and that there was a possibility that these ports might be used for military purposes, he said he believed snch an idea to be unfounded. ' The British Government, Mr. Chamberlain added, had had ropeated and uwet catgorical apurancen fipm Italy,
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 26, 23 October 1937, Page 5
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