§ Colonel WEDGWOODasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he will give the House the substance of his conversations with Signor Benito Mussolini at Florence?
§ Sir A. CHAMBERLAINHaving decided for personal reasons to spend Easter week at Florence, I asked His Majesty's Ambassador to inform Signor Mussolini of my intention and to say what pleasure it would give me to see him again if, as I thought possible, he himself were to be in the neighbourhood. Signor Mussolini, who was spending a few days at Forli, was good enough to motor over to see me. This was the fifth occasion on which we have met including our first meeting at Rome in 1924, and I welcomed it as giving me another opportunity for such an exchange of views with him as I habitually have with other Foreign Ministers at Geneva. No special importance attached to the meeting and no subjects were proposed for discussion at it, but, as was natural, we passed in review the general European situation as well as the relations between our two countries, which are happily of the most cordial character. It will not be forgotten that Great Britain and Italy are guarantors of the Treaty of Locarno and have thus a common interest in the maintenance of peace and the promotion of good relations among all the signatories of that Treaty.