ITALIAN INTERESTS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 December 1938, Page 6

ITALIAN INTERESTS

DECLARATION BY COUNT CIANO. DEMONSTRATIONS IN ROME. Bv Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day, 1.15 p.m.) ROME. December 1. During a speech in the Chamber of Deputies, Count Ciano (Foreign Minister) declared his intention to safeguard the interests and aspirations of Italians. This brought anti-French demonstrations, and cries of “Tunisia.” The demonstrations continued outside Parliament. “GRAVE INSULT” ITALIAN PAPER’S ASSERTIONS. (Received This Day, 1.15 p.m.) ROME, December 1. The “Tribuna” declares that the French occupation of Tunis in 1881 was a grave insult which will always be remembered by Italians. It adds that in order to be friends with Italy it is necessary to repair insults. OPINION IN FRANCE. ATTEMPT TO SOW DIVISIONS. (Received This Day, 1.15 p.m.) LONDON, December 1. “The Times” Rome correspondent points out that the demonstration has altered opinion in France, not because the claims are taken seriously, _ although it is realised that Italian grievances in Tunisia must be considered, but because of a conviction that Italy and Germany are engaged at present in a carefully-planned attempt to weaken Anglo-French solidarity. Evidence of this is seen in further German attacks on Britain when Herr von Ribbentrop was preparing to go to France and the new Italian outburst against France when Mr Chamberlain is preparing to go to Rome.