London, Sept. 18, Newspapers in both Germany and Italy are highly critical of the Nyon agreement and the abandonment of naval control in Spain by Great Britain and France.
According to despatches from Rome, resentment regarding the Nyon plan has led to a sharper tone in the Italian press towards Britain than vas noticeable for several weeks past. It is felt in the Italian capital that the international situation has been aggravated by the plan, which many quarters consider to be directed against Italy.
The relations between Britain and Italy, says "Il Tribuna", are again at a period of crisis. The journal refers to the collaboration of the British and French fleets in the Mediterranean as a "regular naval demonstration, if not a dress rehearsal, of cooperation between the two fleets in a possible future war."
'The German newspapers are no less critical. The Nyon. agreement, -with its new annexes,' and the abandon: ment of control by -the British and French Governments, they state, are developing into. a - demonstration primarily in favour of safeguarding Anglo-French interests in the Mediterranean to the detriment of Italy and" Germany. They are of the opinion that the crisis in the Mediterranean will become more intensified.
The view of political circles is reflected in the "Nachtausgabe", which says that Italy and Germany will be specially interested to receive from the British and French Governments an honest and frank explanation of their policy in the Mediterranean and towards Spain.—Reuter.
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