HC Deb 27 June 1938 vol 337 c1546W
Mr. A. Henderson

asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer what reasons were advanced by the Italian Government for declining to be associated with the meeting of those Powers concerned with the settlement of the Austrian foreign debt question?

Captain Wallace

On 18th May the Italian member of the Committee of Guarantor States for the Reconstruction of Austria informed the Committee that the Italian Government had decided to withdraw from the Committee. No reasons for this decision have been communicated to the Committee or to His Majesty's Government.