ITALY READY TO JOIN
Received Sunday, 7 p.m. 'ROME, March 11. The Premier, Senor de Gasperi, toi-! Parliament that the Italian Cabinet had unanimously agreed to adhere to the Atlantic Pact but declared that parti cipation in the Pact did not necessarily .signify participation in war. ' ' Even in the case of war breaking out, one of : the participants in the Pact might have other funetions than exactly that of fighting," Senor de Gasperi declared. Packed and tense "sessions of the Ohamber and Senate heard his briet declaration. He said Italy did not .subordinate entrance to the Pact to her Jesire* for peace treaty devisions. The Communist leader, Senor Togliatti, told the Lower Chamber that the Communists threatened a new wave of .strikes and demonstrations if Parlia tnent approved Italy 's inelusion in the Pactv
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Chronicle (Levin), 14 March 1949, Page 5
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