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Show Britain, France Hear Showdown With Mussolini LONDON. Oct. 13 (IIEh Great Britain and France agreed today to give Premier Benito Mussolini one last chance to come to an ! agreement with the London non-i non-i intervention committee of 27 na-; na-; tions on withdrawing volunteers i from Spain. The two governments made a : final concession to Mussolini by acceeding to his demand that the problem come before me general non-intervention committee rather than a tri-power meeting of Britain, Brit-ain, France and Italy, but British quarters insisted that London and Paris are agreed on the closest cooperation on "strong measures" if the non-intervention negotiations negotia-tions fail. Time Limit Set A time limit was set. British and French spokesmen said the non-intervention nations will issue a joint declaration announcing that if the negotiations do not produce satisfactory results within a "reasonable time," it will be necessary to recognize that other measures are called ror- The time limit was placed at two weeks. The British after a 2 hour cabinet cab-inet meeting, instructed Lord Plymouth, Ply-mouth, chairman of the non-intervention committee to convene that body as soon as possible, and the meeting probably will start Saturday. |