The Archive · 1938

Against Rome Pact

London, Nov. 13.

A delegation of professors and tridents from the University of London lodged a petition at Downing Street today, demanding that the Anglo-Italian Accords be not ratified before complete withdrawals of Italian troops and materials in Spain have been effected.

Several of the professors and a large number of students staged a demonstration before the Italian Embassy here, carrying placards on which were inscribed the words. "We won't have Mussolini or Hitler as cur Foreign Secretary Other signs bore the words, "Chamberlain is starving Spain" and "The bombing of British ships must stop. What's the British Navy for?"—Havas.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

Your account