DISARMAMENT

Hokitika Guardian, 17 February 1933, Page 5

DISARMAMENT

ATTACK ON FRANCE!

ITALIAN PRESS ALLEGATION.

(Ur'ted Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.)

ROME, February 15

Muti.;.Mini’s newspaper “Ji Popolo D’Jtaiia,” publishes a violent attack on France in connection with the allegation of a French Deputy tlia.r. a secret- alliance exists between Italy, Germany and Hungary.

* . S The article denounces the allegation as an alibi designed to mask .France’s determination not to disarm, i t continues: “Now, we shall know who wants peace, and who wants war to dominate the world. The responsibility is fixed. Nobody threatens France, but it is France who, with lier formidable increa.ee in armaments, her spirit of intrigue, her ambition, her •static, age-old ignorance, of the development and needs of other peoples, her alliances and her press, financed by armament firms, who threatens Europe and the world.” It- is authoritatively 'denied that Mussolini was the author of the article. ARMS AND MUNITIONS EXPORT. TO S. AMERICAN COMBATANTS. RUGBY, February 15. Answering Parliamentary question Sir J. Simon (Foreign Secretary) said that on the. initiative of the British Government, an exchange of views had taken place between the Governments' of the United Kingdom and of the United States, France and Italy with a view to an agreement between them to prohibit the export of arms and munitions of war to the Bolivia and Parguay. In anticipation, of any prohibition of a. more general character that might be arranged through the League of Nations effiorts to bring .about early action by international ■agreement were being continued, but had not yet succeeded. Replying to a supplementary question, he expressed the belief that if an arrangement could be established in regard to Bolivia and Paraguay, it would extend.