London, Mar. 19.
"Italy is fully conscious of her ro~ sponsibilities and remains faithful to her Locarno engagements," declared Signor Dino Grandi, Italian Ambas-Jsador in London, in the first public declaration by the Italians on the resent international crisis. emphasized Italy's perfect understanding of the" legitimate anxieties of France and Belgium, but slated It could not be expected that Italy would join in the application of measures {0 which she was being sub-
'The Locarno Pact, he declared, was built on the solidarity of the Western Powers. "European peace is indivisible and the methods of preserve ing it must remain indivisible; otherwise, Europe will become an' armed fortress."
Continuing, Signor Grandi deplored the violation' of the Locarno Pact all the more because it was the action of a great Power whose ce-operation was essential to the maintenance of Peace. It is our duty to see that the unity of the Locarno Powers is not divided and not weakened, "One incontestably clear cause of the present weakness is the political basis of the Locarno Treaty and the consequence. of decisions made in Geneva in connection with the Tialo-Bthlopian dispute," he concluded.
Col. Joseph Beck, Polish Foreign Minister, Senor Bards, the Spanish representative, Senor Guinazu, of Dr.
Munch, Danish Foreign Minister, and the Rumanian Foreign Minister, BW, Titulescu, also spoke.
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