TURNED DOWN BY PETAIN
REQUEST BY MUSSOLINI WAY OF ESCAPE FOR ITALIANS (U.P.A.-By Electric Telegraph-Copyright] London, Feb. 20. The first mention from Vichy of the recent meetings between General ■ Franco, Signor Mussolini, and Marshal j Petain is made in an agency report ; passed by the Vichy censor This message says that Marshal Petain refused a : jiquest by Signor Mussolini that Italian ■•oops in Libya should be allowed to | use Tunisia as a way of escape. It is reported that a request was made to General Franco to permit the troops in Libya to go to Spanish Morocco if the British pushed them out of Libya. As that would mean that the Italians would have to pass through Tunisia, Marshal Petain’s permission was sought. He is said to have refused, on the ground that under international law the defeated French would be obliged to disarm their conquerors.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 22 February 1941, Page 5
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