REFUSED BY PETAIN.
PASSAGE FOR ITALIAN TROOPS. ESCAPING FROM LIBYA. O• - - / LONDON, "'February 20. The Vichy correspondent of the British United Press, referring to General Franco’s meetings with Signor Mussolini and Marshal . Petain, says that. Marshal Petain refused an Italian request for - tho use of North Africa to enable Italian troops to escape from Libya. Signor Mussolini is reported to have asked General Franco to permit Italian forces in Libya to proceed to Spanish Morocco. Then Marshal Petain’s permission w r as sought for a passage across Tunis. Marshal Petain refused, because under international law “the defeated French would he obliged to disarm their ‘conquerors.’ ”
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 113, 22 February 1941, Page 5
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