STATUS OF ROME
OPEN CITY PROPOSAL IMPRACTICABLE. ACCORDING TO LORD SIMON. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10.11 a.m.) RUGBY, August 29. The Lord Chancellor spoke in Edinburgh on the Italian proposal to make Rome an “open city” with the apparent view of insuring it from any further risk of air attacks. In international law, said Lord Simon, he was not aware of any rule which conferred immunity from attack on a town which made such a declaration. The question of whether or not the town could be bombed from the air depended not on whether it called itself open or undefended, but on whether it contained military objectives. Merely to declare a town open made no difference whatever. It was rather like raising a white flag while continuing to fight. In any case it would seem next to impossible to transform a great capital city, a seat of war manufacture, a nerve centre of administration and junction for military transport, into a purely non-bel-ligerent area.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 August 1943, Page 4
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