ITALY AND FRANCE

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 110, 12 May 1930, Page 9

ITALY AND FRANCE

AFTER NAVAL CONFERENCE

GRANDI ON PARITY

United Press , Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. ■ BOME, 10 Hi May. . The Icing-awaited speech by Signor Grandi, Italy's chief delegate, at the recent London Naval Conference, on the subject of the Naval Conference in London, was heard with rapt attention by a crowded Chamber.

Signor Grandi said'ltaly was eonevinced that naval parity was something loftier than a mere arithmetical calculation. .

"We r(>-ird it as a principle of international morality, based on mutual confidence and tho elimination of distrust," ho said. "It is on this principle that the two most fully armed naval powers, Britain and the United States, have reached agreement. If that agreement is extended to other nations, it will be the beginning of a new era of international relationship, i "The London Conference disposed of two calumnies. First, that Italy was pervaded by a bellicose spirit, and second, that Italy was vacillating in her international actions."

Signor Grandi concluded by stating that he refused to think naval agreement with France was inrpossible.