NYON CONFERENCE

Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 90, 13 October 1937, Page 4

NYON CONFERENCE

BLOW TO MUSSOLINI

RUSSIANS TRAP HIM

It was suggested in Italian quarter* that paragraph 3 of clause iv. of tht Nyon Agreement (which provides that the zones may. be revised at any tima "by the participating Powers in order to take : account of any change in the situation") would make it possible to ask the Italian fleet to join with the) British .and French fleets in the) patrolling of the whole Mediterranean, but that, could not be done without the agreement of all the Powers, par* tjcipating in the Nyqn •_ Conferenca. wrote a correspondent of chester Guardian" on September*l4..

Moreover; it was emphatically] declared in British official quarters that) there. was. no possibility now-X thafi changes could be made in .the{arrange* men'u'\Y : V4V'V. '- ; J' ' Lit is" nop : -thati.-j: al'thtdigfe no Italy, there has been "an interim re« ply." . According- to my-information, this interim reply was given by Count Cianoitoy the Charjges/ d^Affaires,when J :jthe'y presented the communication: from the Nyon Conference. The point in it' wag that' Italy; insisted ;on ; JSharing the control of the whole Mediti;rraneaa with Great 'Britain■and-TranceV

THE DELAY OF THE GREEKS

: This question was disc.us&dV'iuid M, Politis urged that the Italian?; demand should be concededi but at; & (meeting between r Mr. Eden, M.vDeihosi:and Mr. Litvinoff it was decided could be made iri;^e*a^reiMrie.ilt. It is now known: thaVihe "delay iii .the reply of the' 'Greek Government took place because under'Geßman op Italian influence, ' ■ jok it was thinking of asking for; modification, in the Nyon : Agreemtnt'to meet Mussolini's wishes; " When,' vhowevg?, it-became known at-Athehs;';"l|iat the British and .French. ; GOTitehments would not agree to.any>.cteMi((es the Greek Government authorised M, Politis jto;sign; Thig appeanita show 5 that the Greek Government "is now completely, .under; the influence of th« Fascist Powers: '- ■- :

WHERE "WARNING IS JJtHVEN.

;; The Eastern' Eurbpeari{ Powers ar« stiU .uneasy ; about, impunity that may be given tb. a attacking a merchant ship "'after- giving warning. There-seems,; however, to \be, little . doubt, that Hi. Delbps was right in saying that even in jthat case the . submarine. ..may _.; W :_ counterattacked, for there is" "nolliing in th« Nyon arrangement- to" the contrary. It;merely does not-oblige the partici* pating Powers to attack, .it. Presumably the French fleet,in the are* attributed to it will inaccordance with M. Delbbs's'Statement.

' On :one'point everybody is agreed— namely, that the success of the Nyons Conference is "a diplomatic defeat for? Mussolini, who committed the blunder of playing into, the hands of Soviet Russia by not attending the conference. For there is.no doubt that-the intention of the i Russian Government in sending the famous Note to th» Italian. Government was to prevent Italy or Germany irom attending the Conference. .The prevailing opinion is that by so. 1: doing the Russian Government rendered ,a great service, for if Italy and Germany, or either of them, had attended the conference it is doubtful if any agreement would have been arrived at" and certain that if bne.had been arrived at it would have been much less "satisfactory than the Nyon arrangement. ~