The Archive · 1938

Acts of War Will Be Met with Acts of War France and Britain Urge Calmness

Paris, June 26. "We shall reply to acts of war by acts of war," was the statement made yesterday to M.

Bonnet, French Foreigi Minister, by the Italian Charge d'Affaires.

The Italian diplomat had been instructed from Rome to emphasise the gravity of the war-like tendency attributed to the Barcelona Government in its threat of reprisals against cities of foreign countries, which it regarded as at least partially responsible for the Nationalists' continued aerial bombardments of open towns in

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