Additionally, Italy had been broadcasting anti-British propaganda and supplying arms to Arab rebels in British Palestine.

They also undertook to uphold the freedom of navigation in the Suez Canal and to preserve the peace between their colonial possessions in East Africa.

Ethiopia was not named in the agreements, but it was clear the British government intended to ignore Italian control there.

The Italian government undertook to withdraw its forces from Spain to facilitate the restoration of peace in that country.

Italy failed to drive a wedge in relations between France and Britain and the appeasement policy towards the Italian government did not prevent the formation of a German-Italian alliance, which was concluded in May 1939 as the Pact of Steel.