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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 18991, 16 April 1936, Page 6

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LOCARNO TREATY POWERS ROME HOLDS ALOOF LONDON PRESS COMMENT (British Official Wireless.) Heed. 12.45 p.m. RUGBY, April 1!-. Th./ gt-iK-ial staff talks, which are beimj held under paragraph 111 of the London agreement of the Locarno Treaty signatories other than Germany, opened at the. Admiralty this morning. The British, French and Belgian representatives, alter a preliminary talk, split up. the army representatives going to the War Ollice. the Air Force to the Air Ministry, and the naval men rc- ■ mainiug at the Admiralty. fl is announced from Rome that Italy has definitely declined lo participate. Her attitude is described as one of "watchful reserve." The Times, commenting on the fact that the Italian Government' stood aloof from Ihe London draft proposals, and thai, the question of inviting the Italian stall' delegate-, did uol ari e, says thai though the i a Iks have on immediate practical importance, and though this is an abstention rather than an exclusion, the moral is no different, "it is indeed obvious, on any dispassionate analysis, iluii tin- Italian, intlneneu in Europe nnisi diminish with the growth of her preoccupation elsewhere." slates The Times,