http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1940/jan40/f31jan40.htm
British order Italian fighter aircraft
Wednesday, January 31, 1940 www.onwar.com
In Italy... A secret British military mission orders 300 Caproni Re2000 fighters. (German intervention in April effectively vetoes the deal and British attempts to obtain the fighters through a Portuguese intermediary fail with the Italian declaration of war on June 10th.)
In Britain... The Barlow Report on the “Distribution of Industrial Population” is published, recommending the building of new towns.
You have to wonder if better diplomacy at this point might have flipped the Italians.