ITALIAN OUTBURST

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLV, Issue 21211, 5 December 1938, Page 7

ITALIAN OUTBURST

SEQUEL TO SPEECH OF COUNT CIANO Press Resentment m France Reaction in London and Berlin Rival Groups Supported British Official Wireless (Received December 4, 6.30 p.m.) RUGBY, December 3. The French Ambassador called at the Foreign Office and informed the British Government of the protest which his Government had lodged in Rome regarding the scene in the Italian Chamber of Deputies at the end of Count Ciano’s speech. English Press Support The protest is described as proper and well justified by "The Times,” which suggests that it is well to bear in mind that more than one party seems bent upon appeasement, but a bigger opportunity may appear to the other to raise the cost oi agreement. The paper emphasises that it is a matter of universal importance that diplomacy by agitation should not be allowed to take place of diplomacy by consultation.

The demonstration in the .Italian Chamber is regarded as untimely by “The Daily Telegraph” in the sense both that it follows France’s recognition of the Italian Empire and that it immediately precedes Mr Neville Chamberlain’s impend.ng visit to Rome.

RESENTMENT IN PARIS STRONG PRESS CRITICISM United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright (Received December 4, 6.30 p.m.) PARIS, December 3. The press continues its chorus of resentment against the Italian Colonial outburst, declaring that not an inch of French territory can be bargained. The newspapers regret the fictitious agitation after France’s attempts to better relations, notably by the recognition of the Abyssinian conquest. Several newspapers suggest that Germany sympathetically views the claims as a sop to Italy’s accommodating policy regarding Polish and Hungarian claims ant Czechoslovakia. Campaign in Full Blast The campaign for territorial revision in the Mediterranean is in full blast in the Italian press.

ASSURANCES TO FRANCE RESISTANCE TO ITALIAN CLAIMS United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright Independent Cable Service (Received December 4, 11.40 p.m.) LONDON, December 4. Sir Alexander Cadogan assured M. Corbin (French Ambassador in London) that Britain would support the French resistance to Italy’s claims. REACTION IN GERMANY ITALIAN SPEECH RECEIVED WITH ENTHUSIASM United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph - Copyright (Received December 4. 6.30 p.m.) LONDON, December 3. The Berlin correspondent of “The Times" says: The newspapers continue to greet Count Ciano’s speech with enthusiastic references to the powers of the Berlin-Rome axis, brotherhood in arms, and readiness to use “all means" to achieve common political alms. Britain and France are bluntly told they cannot hold oversea possessions, except by the good will of Italy and Germany, and they will find it cheaper to meet Italian and German conditions for the final pacification of Europe than resist them. The newspapers add: The friendships that Germany may form with others do not alter the fact that fundamentally her policy Is based on the Rome-Berlin axis and the antiComintern Pact.

FRANCO-GERMAN AGREEMENT FOREIGN MINISTER TO VISIT PARIS United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright Independent Cable Service (Received December 4, 6.30 p.m.) PARIS, December 3. The French Foreign Minister and the German Foreign Minister (Herr von Ribbentrop) will sign the FrancoGerman agreement on December 6.

During a speech in the Italian Chamber of Deputies on Thursday, the Foreign Minister (Count Ciano) declared his intention to safeguard the interests and aspirations of Italians. This brought antl-French demonstrations and cries of “Tunisia.” The demonstrations continued outside Parliament, tne crowd shouting: “Duce, Tunis, Corsia.” The Paris correspondent of “The Times” pointed out that the demonstration had altered the opinion of France, not because the claims were taken seriously, althoughit was realised that Italian grievances in Tunisia must be considered, but because of the conviction that Italy and Germany were engaged at present in a carefully planned attempt to weaken Anglo-French solidarity, evidence of which was seen in further

German attacks on Great Britain when Herr von Ribbentrop was preparing to go to France, and the new Italian outburst against France when Mr Chamberlain was preparing to go to Rome. A further Rome message reported that the newspaper “Tribuna" declared that the French occupation of Tunis in 1881 was a grave insult that will always be remembered by Italians and adds that in order to be friends with Italy it was necessary to repair insults.