ITALY AND ARMAMENTS.
SPEECH BY SIGNOR GRANDI. LOFTY VIEW OF PARITY. ROME, May 10. The long-awaited speech by Signor Grandi, Italy’s chief delegate at the recent Naval Conference, was heard with rapt attention by a crowded Chamber. Signor Grandi said that Italy was convinced that naval parity was something loftier than a mere arithmetical calculation. “We regard it as a principle of international morality, based on mutual confidence and tho elimination of distrust,” he 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 bo the beginning of a new era of international relationship. “The London conference disposed of two calumnies—that Italy was pervaded by a bellicose spirit, and that Italy was vacilliating in her international actions.” Signor Grandi concluded by stating that he refused to think that naval agreement with France was impossible.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 139, 12 May 1930, Page 7
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