ITALY DECLINES
CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, July 20. The Foreign Secretary explained;-at Commons’ question time, thahf} tire 1 1talian Government was-'recently in. vited by the Belgian Government to take part in. the conversations with the British, French and Belgian Governments, but the Italian Government declined. It is known, however, that the Italian and German Governments have been aud will be kept informed with regard to the proposed Three Power meeting. Mr Churchill asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer, in the Commons, it he w.as aware that the expenditure by Germany on purposes directly or indirectly concerned with military preparations, including strategic roads might have amounted to £800,000,000 during 1935, and whether this rate of expenditure seemed to be continuing. •Mr Neville Chamberlain replied that • Cie Government had no official figures, but from the information they hfM. he saw no reason to think that the figure mentioned by Mr Churchill was necessarily excessive, although there were elements of (conjecture.
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Hokitika Guardian, 22 July 1936, Page 6
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