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DUCE DEFINES HIS CLAIMS Tunisia, Jibuti And Suez Canal SOLIDARITY OF AXIS REAFFIRMED Warning To Democracies Against Coalition By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. (Received March 27, 1.30 a.m.) ROME,'March 26. The appearance of Signor Mussolini in the Forum today to deliver his eagerly-awaited speech on the foreign situation was greeted with a roar of “Savoy! Nice!” from 100,000 Blackshirts gathered to hear him. Signor Mussolini said that, though he believed eternal peace would be a catastrophe for the world, long peace was necessary for the reconstruction of Europe, but Italy would not take the initiative to protect peace till her holy rights had been acknowledged and satisfied. Any attempt to break the RomeBerlin axis, continued the Dnce. were puerile. If a democratic coalition’ was created the totalitarian powers would abandon defensive tactics and assume the offence. What had happened in Central Europe watt inevitable. Italy wanted the world to know that the Italian note sent to France on December 17 bad defined Italy's claims against France as Tunisia, Jibuti and the Suez Canal.
One should no longer speak of a Franco-Italian brotherhood. The relations between the two States were based on strength. Power in the Mediterranean was vital for Italy, economically, politically and militarily. This was also true of the Adriatic. Italy had to arm regardless of cost.
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Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 155, 27 March 1939, Page 5
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