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Show DUCE RECALLS SPAINTROOPS LONDON. Nov. g (INS) As silently si-lently as they were sent, from 10 000 to 15,000 Italian "volunteers" have been withdrawn from Spain. It was confirmed la diplomatic quarters here today. Even while the nonintervention C commission in London was fum- J bling futilely with the problem of i ,., wlthdiawels and threats were be- ing hurled over conference tables, Premier Mussolini waa quietly - J during his support for the injur. genu. : His astonishing move, the first 1 big concrete peace gesture Europe has witnessed in years of dread, f will doubtless mean that France 1 will not carry out her threat to 0 throw open the Spanish frontier for a tide of aid to the Spanish loyal- 1 utJ- j During the uut three weeks, It ? waa estimated, 10.000 to 18.000 Ital ians have been withdrawn. That would leave, K waa believed, from 46,000 to 70,000 atill in Spain, Sqr crecy waa preserved, according to diplomata in London, because Italy wanted to be able to tell th nonintervention non-intervention enumeration committee commit-tee "See ; the figure of 40,000 we publicly announced weeks ago la proved correct." Even General Franco's headquar- "Teri "IrTXondon admits "that with.' drawals run "into the thousands." Besides his desire to show th nonintervention group that his original orig-inal figure was right, Mussolini had two other motivations, It waa understood un-derstood : 1 II due realised It waa dan-geroua dan-geroua to leave a large maaa of fighting men and material so far afield in view of th continuing danger In Europe and th Far East. 2 General Franco himself objected ob-jected to the presence of large numbers num-bers of Italians when they were not really needed. LONDON, Nov. t (UP) Great Britain haa agreed to exchange agents with the 8panlsh insurgents to safeguard British Interests in Spain, Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden told th house of commons today, but Is In no way recognising recognis-ing th Insurgents as a legally constituted con-stituted government |