THE LEGAL ASPECT
ROME AS OPEN CITY Reed. 6 p.m. Rugby, Aug. 29. The Lord Chancellor, Lord Simon, spoke at Edinburgh on the Italian proposal to make Rome an "open town” with the apparent view oi insuring it from any further risk of air attacks. In international law, said Lord Simon, he was not aware ot any rule which conferred immunity from attack on a town which made such a declaration. The question of whether or not a town could be bombed from the air depended not on whether it called itself open or undefended, - it whether it contained military objective’s. Merely to declare a town open made no difference whatever. It was rather like raising the white flag while continuing to fight. In any case, it would seem next to impossible to transform a great capital city, a seat of war manufacture, a nerve centre of administration, and a junction for military transport into a purely non-belligerent area.—B.O.W.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 87, Issue 205, 31 August 1943, Page 5
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