LATIN UNITY.

Press, Volume LIX, Issue 17936, 3 December 1923, Page 9

LATIN UNITY.

ITALO-SPANISH TREATIES. MUSSOLINI'S PLANS MATURE. (BT CAJMJt—fRSSS ABSOCIATIOK—OOPTRIOHT-) (JICSTBAL-US JLM N.S. CARLE ASSOCIATION.) (Received DfOftmber 2nd, 0.5 p.m.) LO.YDGN; December 1. The diplomatic correspondent of th© '"Daily Telegraph,' 1 writing regarding the Italo-Spaiush rapproacnement, says that th-ei» is reason to boliovo that tho result will bo & series of conventions of a commercial and economic, a diplomatic and a strategic nature. A commercial ana economic convene lion has already been initialled; and a diplomatic agreement is Being drafts. Tho strategic treaty will require to bo. worked out by experts. The primary impulse is believed to have come from .Rome. Signer Mussolini would eeern to have borrowed a leaf from tho ixwk of tho British Empire. for closely linked with tho economic arrangement is a wider scheme for linking up relations between Italy and Spain with Spanish South America.

The great Latin States on tho other side of the ocean nxo being regarded by Italy as an elastic but powerful federation of Latin stock and culture. POPE'S TEMPORAL POWER. IDEAL NOT SURRENDERED. (BT CABLS-PRKS3 ASSOCIATION—COPTRIOnT-) (.AUSTBAiXIK AXD K.E. CABIJS ASSOCIATION.) ROME, November 30. The "Osservatore Romano," tho organ of tho Vatican, has aroused considerable comment by tho publication of an article protesting against the interpretation placed by the Italian and foreign newspapers on the Spanish King's visit to tho Pope. It denies that tho visit signified tho Pope's final renunciation of all dreams of recovering temporal power. Tho Pope, by granting permission to Catholio Sovereigns to visit Rome, haa not in any way acquiesced in th© situation created in 1870.

The E&cjfclical issued in 1920 by Pope Benedict XV., by which this permission was first accorded, is quoted to this effect. This concession, ifc is stated, must not t» interpreted as a tacit renunciation of the Pope's sacrosanct rights. On tbe contrary, the Pope has renewed the protest made by his predecessors. The article concludes: "The wound of 1870 cannot be cured by blandishments."

[On September 20th, 1870, Piedmont troops stormed. the Porta Pia, Rome fell, and the unity of Italy was attained. The kingdom of Italy was proclaimed, and the famous Laws of Guarantees were ©uacted. Pop© Pius IX protested against annexation of the Papal States to the kingdom, and, every succeeding PontiS has done the same. Every year the Italian Government has passed a large vote for the Vatican but this has never been accepted, and the Pope has remained a virtual prisoner in liiß own palnoc.'J