§ 10. Mr. J. Morganasked the Prime Minister whether any treaty, pact, or agreed understanding exists which, in the event of Italy embarking on warlike operations against France or her possessions, would specifically require Great Britain to render military aid to France?
§ The Prime MinisterNo such specific requirement exists in any treaty or pact with France.
§ Mr. MorganIs the Prime Minister to that extent freer when he proceeds to Rome to bargain away French interests to advance our own?
§ 26. Mr. Sorensenasked the Prime Minister whether he has intimated, or is intimating, to Signor Mussolini that the recent Italian demonstrations and agitation against France will prove embarrassing to and are likely adversely to affect the prospective Italo-British conversations; and whether he will make a statement in regard to these conversations in the light of those demonstrations continuing and producing a condition of tension between France and Italy?
§ The Prime MinisterAs I informed the House on 5th December, His Majesty's Government have represented to the Italian Government that demonstrations of this kind, unless steps are taken to correct the impression created, must have a most detrimental effect on the prospects of collaboration between the four Munich Powers. I have nothing at present to add to that statement.
§ Mr. SorensenHas any improvement been noticed as a result of these protests?
§ Lieut.-Commander FletcherDo not the claims referred to constitute a violation of the Anglo-Italian Agreement with respect to the status quo in the Mediterranean; and will not His Majesty's Government protest against these claims on that ground alone?
§ The Prime MinisterI have already said so.