WAY OF ESCAPE
PASSAGE ACROSS TUNIS REFUSED MUSSOLINI BY RETAIN LONDON, February 20. The Vichy correspondent of the British United Press, referring to th 6 jneeting of General 1‘ raiico. Mussolini, jjnd Marshal Detain refused an Italian request to use North Africa and so enable Italian troops to escape from Libya. Mussolini is reported to have asked General Franco to permit the Italian forces in Libya to proceed to Spanish Morocco, Then Marshal Petain s permission was sought for passage across Tunis. Marshal Potain refused because, under international law, “ the defeated French would be obliged to disarm their ‘ conquerors.’ ”
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Evening Star, Issue 23817, 22 February 1941, Page 12
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99WAY OF ESCAPE Evening Star, Issue 23817, 22 February 1941, Page 12
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