4-#319, From London, Apr.15, 5p.m.
 
      
 
 
apply such evacuation on conditions to be determined by the 
      Non-intervention Committee on the basis that formula. He will 
      reaffirm an assurance previously given to His Majesty's Government 
      that if this Evacuation had not been completed at the termination 
      of the civil war all remaining Italian volunteers will forthwith 
      leave Spanish territory and all war material be withdrawn. He 
      will also reaffirm a previous assurance that the Italian Government 
      have no territorial or political aims and seek no privileged 
      economic position in Spanish territories (including the Spanish 
      zone of Morocco) and do not intend to keep any armed forces there. 
      In reply to this letter Lord Perth will take note of these assurances 
      and will state that
 
      
 
 
His Majesty's Government regard a settlement of the Spanish 
      question as a prerequisite of the entry into force of the agreement 
      reached between themselves and the Italian Government. In the 
      same letter he will then turn to the subject of Ethiopia and 
      will inform Court Ciano that His Majesty's Government being desirous 
      that such obstacles as may at present be held to impede the freedom 
      of member states as regards recognition of Italian Sovereignty 
      over Ethiopia should be removed intend to take steps at the forthcoming 
      meeting