8. No reports have been received suggesting any open disaffection towards the regime, such steadying influence as Vatican and King may have had in the past has probably now disappeared. Only place where conditions definitely believed bad is Dodecanese, which is short of provisions. Reports received conditions bad Trieste. 9. meanwhile hatred British being steadily fostered. (Signed) V. CAVENDISH-BENTINCK. " W.D. STEPHENS. (For D.N.I.) F.G. BEAUMONT-NESBITT. A.R. BOYLE. N.F. HALL. hmond Terrace, S.W.1., 6TH AUGUST, 1940.