COMMUNISTS WORRIED
Received Sunday, 7 p.m. LONDON, March 12. • Police armed with truneheons and tommy-guns charged hundreds of youths demonstrating in Central Rome against the Atlantic Pact, says Reuter 's Rome correspondent. The - youths gathered near the Chamber of Deputies where the Pact was being debated. Fights started and 50 persons wer'e detained. Meanwhlle the Government is not expected to take further action towards joining the Atlantie Pact until the Senate and Chamber approve its decision. The pro-Communist leader, Pietro Nenni, opening the Deputies debate on the Pact, said the Italian Left Wing would fight the Pact as it fought the Fascist-Axis Pact. He asked that a nation-wide referendum be held. Hc added that the Pact was an attempt to put a ring round the Soviet Union and the populuar democracies. • Communists in Naples entered the City Hall to protest against the Pact. As part of the campaign against the Pact, Communists held small unofficial strikes in numerous places today. In Paris, the evening newspaper Paris Presse quoted a Spanish Foreign Office spokesman as saying that Spain would not join the Mediterranean Pact if she were excluded from the Atlantic Pact and United Nations.
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