ITALIAN NOTE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 March 1939, Page 8

ITALIAN NOTE

NO PRECISE DEMANDS MADE FRENCH COMMITTEE'S VIEW. AN UNANIMOUS DECISION. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day, 11.20 a.m.) PARIS, March 29. The Foreign Affairs Committee are unanimous ifi the view that the Italian Note of December 17 did not formulate precise demands.

DALADIER’S BROADCAST. APPROVED BY CABINET. (Received This Day, 10.25 a.m.) PARIS, March 29. Cabinet unanimously approved the text of M. Daladier’s broadcast. FRANCE WAITING FOR PRESENTATION OF ITALIAN PROPOSALS. PRIME MINISTER’S REPLY TO MUSSOLINI. (Received This Day, 12.45 p.m.) PARIS, March 29. France awaits the Italian proposals, was M. Daladier’s broadcast reply to Signor Mussolini. M. Daladier recalled the Note from Count Ciano on December 17 stating that Italy did not consider the 1935 agreement valid and the speech by Signor Mussolini on March 26. declaring that the Note of December 17 set out clearly the Italian problems as Tunisia, Djibouti and Suez. “I affirm that the Note of December 17 did not contain any precise points,” said M. Daladier. “Its essential argument was that the conquest of Ethiopia and the formation of an Italian Empire created new rights in favour of Italy. I need not say that we cannot accept this argument. It would mean that each new conquest would create new claims without limit.” M. Daladier announced his intention of publishing the Note on March 30, together with the French reply given several days after receipt. He declared that France had remained faithful to her engagements. “France does not refuse to examine proposals which may be made to her,” he said. Reiterating that the claims remain unspecified, M. Daladier said no one could argue that they had been presented by newspaper articles or street criers.