NAVAL AGREEMENT.
ATTITUDE OF ITALY.
FAVOURS PACT WITH FRANCE.
(Received May 11, 5.45 p.m.) ROME, May 10,
A long awaited speech by Signor Grandi on tho subject of the London Naval Conference was heard with rapt attention by a crowded Chamber of Deputies to-day. Signor Grandi said 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 the elimination of distrust," ho said. "It is, on this principle that tho two most fully armed naval Powers—Britain and tho United States —have reached an agreement. " If that agreement is extended to other nations it will bo tho beginning of a new era of international relationship. Tho London Conference disposed of two calumnies, namely, (1) that Italy is pervaded by a liollico.se spirit and (2) that Italy is vacillating in her international actions."
Signor Grandi' concluded by stating that he refused to think a naval agreement with Franco was impossible.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20561, 12 May 1930, Page 11
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