Rome, Nov. 30.
HILE hailing the recently-ratified Anglo-Italian Agreement of April 16, the Italian Foreign Minister, Count Galeazzo Ciano, stated in the House of Deputies today that they did not mean the restoration of traditional Italo-British friendship.
He pointed out that present times are far different from the times when such friendship did vist but added that "such accords have their place in the system of agreements which takes into account the new European, Mediterranean and African situation and which places relations between the two countries on the basis of the strictest moral, political and military parity."
He then referred to the Anti-Comintern Pact.
"The entry into force of the Eastern Pact was an effective contribution towards strengthening the cause of peace.
This will be the solid objective of our policy and we will pursue our aims tenaciously and realistically though circumspectly as necessitated by our determination to protect the interests and natural aspirations of the Italian people with the utmost Ciano was interrupted by the shouted as one, "Tunis! Tunis firmness." At this point Count cries of several Deputies who
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