Rome, July 7.
'The press publishes the full text of' Italy's reply to the French Foreign Minister's memorandum pro-Posing the creation of a Pan-Europ-can Federation, the original Italian note having—been handed to the French Charge d'Affaires on Saturday last.
The Italian Government's reply though worded in conciliatory terms is uncompromisingly negative, It is divided into three parts whereof the first"demands that all discriminations against the defeated nations be removed and that victors and Vanquished as well as the big and small nations be accorded equal rights and be guaranteed thei absolute independence and save Ttaly then proposes that both the Soviet Union and Turkey be invited to join the. discussion since their non-invitation was incompatible with the professed aims of Mf. Briand's project.
'The second part of the note deals with the relations' between the proposed Federation and the non-European countries as well as with tthe League of Nations respectively. and emphasizes that it would fatal if the iden of solidarity inspiving the League of Nations were sapped. "Moreover, the note contines, there exists the danger that the formation of a European block will result in the creation of other international groupings whereby the organic unity of the League of Nations would be destroyed. For these reasons Ttaly is opposed to M. Briand's proposal of forming an organization paralleling the League of Nitions' division into an Assembly anda Council and suggests that all nations be given an equal voice and seat, Finally the note repudiates the French thesis that a European Federation must be based on a solution of the security problem and declares that the chief aim of such federation must. be identical with the League of Nations' security, hich in M, Briand's scheme is men~ joned neither directly nor indirectly nut which, in the opinion of the Italian Government, must be the starting point for any effective attempt to achieve the moval cooper tion of the nations of Europe.
-Ocenn-Kuo Min. dam also asked their opinion on the establishment (1) of a representative and responsible organ, to he called the European Conterence; (2) of an executive organ, of Termanent committee; and (3) of 2 secretariat—Reater,
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