ITALY AND FRANCE
AGREEMENT REACHED
SAHARA AREA COR ITALY
NON-INTERFERENCE 1N
AUSTRIA
(Elcc. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) ROME, Jan. 6.
Signor Mussolini and M. Laval this morning bad a long and secret meeting. A communique was not issued.
It is understood that an agreement was reached uhereby France and Italy agree to consult in the event of interference in Austria’s independence. It also recommends that Italy, I ranee, Germany, Austria. Jugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland and Rumania should sign a pact undertaking not to interfere with each other's internal affairs, uol to initiate aggression, and not to countenance terrorism.
.Signor Mussolini and M. Laval also discussed the rectification of the FrancoItalian frontiers in Libya and Tunis. The. conference will be resumed later. il is understood that France is ceding Italy 56,000 square miles, an area as large as England, in the Sahara, occupied by 200,000 pastoral tribes. _ M. Laval lunched with the King and visits the Pope to discuss the Saar plebiscite. At a State dinner this evening Signor Mussolini said : “I believe that you will agree with me that our agreements must not he interpreted as opposed to or even as exclusive of the other countries who wish to collaborate in the work we wish to commence.”
M. Laval said : “We have given birth to a great nope. We shall not disappoint that hope. Peace must he maintained.”
THE GERMAN VIEW
PACT WEAKENED ?
BERLIN, Jan. 6
When a journalist communicated the reported Franco-Italian agreement to- the Foreign Office, the spokesman opined that the pact seemed to weaken instead of strengthen numerous declarations safeguarding Austria. It also created the impression that England had been left (.lit. Moreover, Germany was studiously avoiding interfering with Austria, while Ibe absence of the definition of “interference” might render the pact harmful in providing opportunities - for accusations by interested Powers.
Germany’s attitude depended oil the exact, wording and the number of the countries participating.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18597, 7 January 1935, Page 7
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