Rome, July 1.
Charges that Britain and France have not observed non-intervention in Spain, but have openly helped the Spanish "Reds," are made in an unsigned article in Signor Benito Mussolini's newspaper, "Popolo d'Italia," believed to have been written by Il Duce himself.
The recall of foreign volunteers, the writer says, is so complicated as to be impossible. As for the Italian volunteers, they were not sent by the Italian Government. which therefore has not the means to recall the men, who are dependent on Gen. Francisco Franco, the Nationalist leader, "The Italian Government," the article proceeds, "cannot do it and, in the present circumstances, will not."
The Italian volunteers, the article asserts, went to Spain because it was necessary to give Gen. Franco proof of some solidarity against anti-Fascism. Not to have accepted the challenge of the "Reds" would have been suicide.—Reuter.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.