NO SEPARATE TALKS

Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 128, 1 June 1936, Page 9

NO SEPARATE TALKS

BRITAIN AND ITALY REVIEW BY THE LEAGUE (British Official Wireless.) (Received June 1, noon.) RUGBY, May 31. In commenting on a recent interview which the Italian Ambassador had with Mr. Eden at the Foreign Office, and in the course of which Signor Grandi is understood to have renewed the assurance previously given by the Italian Government regarding respect for British interests in Abyssinia and to have emphasised the desire of Signor Mussolini to improve Anglo-Italian relations, newspapers make it clear that there is no question of an. opening of separate negotiations between Britain and Italy.

British policy from the beginning of the Italo-Abyssinian dispute has been dictated by Britain's membership of the League of Nations, and, accordingly, no new departure is, or need be, expected until the whole position has come under the review of the League at the next meeting of the Council, which opens on June 16.

Press messages from Jibuti report that two members of the British Red Cross unit in. Abyssinia, who were stated to have been detained by the Italian military authorities at Diredawa, have been allowed to resume their journey.