LANGUAGE PROBLEM

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 75, Issue 117, 20 May 1932, Page 2

LANGUAGE PROBLEM

ITALIAN IN MALTA. ROME, May 12. Replying to deputies’ questions as to whether representations had been made to Groat Britain respecting the use of the Italian language in Malta, the Foreign Alinistcr, Signor Grandi, said tha' the Government had taken no official step as it was a. question concerning the internal policy of the British 1 limp ire. j Hr added: “,| eaiimH refrain from I saying that the Government shares the ! unanimous feelings of the Italian nation which has been so painfully ! struck by rvgulalions framed to diminI ish a language in which generations have been edueatfd as loyal hubjccts of the British Empire. On two previous occasions, in 1899 ami 1902, when similar regulations were announced. Great Britain eventually countermanded them, yet Italy was then a member of an alliance, the Triple Alliance, which did not include the British Empire. Moreover, the two countries had not shed much blood in common as they did in tho Great War, nor had they workmi for 10 years together in the cause of peace.’’ 'l'ho Italian nation hopes that Great Britain, recalling the. greatness of the Umpire ‘in which so many live freely and loyally, will consider the language question in all its aspects, also taking into account Italy’s spontaneous sentiment s. The <lepu! • - JuiidU cheered the statement. (