EDA - 2- #319, April 15, 5 p.m. from London shortly to sign.
 
      
 
 
A number of instruments forming part of the agreement will 
      be annexed to a protocol which will provide that they shall come 
      into force at a date to be determined together by the two governments 
      and that upon their taking effect negotiations will be opened 
      (the Egyptian Government being invited to participate where necessary) 
      for the purposes of dealing with certain questions such as frontiers 
      and trade, affecting their relations in East Africa. In this 
      connection there is to be in the meantime a 'bon voisinage' agreement 
      which the United Kingdom, Italy and (in respect of the Anglo-Egyptian 
      Soudan) Egypt will sign.
 
      
 
 
The instruments annexed to the protocol will comprise (a) 
      a reaffirmation of the declaration signed by the United Kingdom 
      and Italy on the second January 1937 regarding the Mediterranean 
      and of the exchange of notes between them of the 31st December 
      1936 respecting the status quo in the Western Mediterranean; 
      (b) an agreement for the periodical exchange of military information 
      in regard to the two parties' forces in certain parts of Africa, 
      the Mediterranean and the Red Sea and providing for advance information 
      regarding decisions to provide new naval or air bases in the 
      Eastern Mediterranean and in the Red Sea or