IN ITALY

Hokitika Guardian, 5 December 1938, Page 5

IN ITALY

CIANO’S SPEECH

THREAT TO BRITAIN, (United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). LONDON, December 3. The Berlin correspondent of “The Times” says: The German newspapers continue to greet the Italian Foreign Minister, Count Ciano’s recent speech with enthusiastic- references to the Berlin-Home axis Powers’ brotherhood ill arms, and to their readiness to use “all means” to achieve their common political aims. Britain and France, says the correspondent, are bluntly told that they cannot bold their oversea possessions except by Italy’s and Germany’s goodwill, and that they will find it cheaper to meet the Italian and German conditions for the final pacification of Europe than to resist them. The newspapers add that the friendships that Germany may form with others do not alter the fact that, fundamentally, her policy is based on the Rome-Berlin axis ; .and the antiComintern Pact. lV : IN THE MEDITERRANEAN j'-.b . •• ROME, ■ December 3. - '

• A third campaign: for territorial 1 revision in tlie-Mediterranean ' Sea ! is in full blast in the Italian press. Journalists here have been forbidden to act as the correspondents of foreign newspapers.

MR CHAMBERLAIN’S VISIT. /

LONDON, December 3.

On their forthcoming visit to Italy, tlie Prime Minister, Mr Chamberlain, and the Foreign Minister, Lord Halifax, will arrive in Rome on December 11. They will depart on their return on December J 4. The" “International Peace Campaign” authorities have arranged for six hundred prominent men and women, from every Parliamentary constituency in the country, to visit the Prime Minister, Mr Neville Chamberlain, before his visit to Rome. They are going to urge him to make it plain that Anglo-Italian friendship cannot be secured until all foreign troops 'and material are withdrawn from Spain.

PARIS PAPERS’ CRITICISM

PARIS December 4

The press here continues a chorus of resentment, against the Italian colonial outburst, declaring that not an inch of French territory can be bargained for. The papers say they regret 1 a fictitious t agitation after France’s attempts to better relations with Italy, notably by recognition ,of the Abyssinian conquest. Several of the newspapers suggest that Germany sympathetically views the claims of Italy as a sop to Italy’s action in accommodating herself to the German policy regard the Polish and Hungarian claims and Czechoslovakia.