"If Italy really wishes to live in good terms with us—as her officially: inspired press has been affirming for some time, we suppose that yesterday's demonstration will prove displeasing to her as it is to u declared "Lo Matin" also a rightist paper. "Tunisia and Corsica are and will remain French—and it will require more than mere gestures to take them away from us."
The monarchist "Action Francaise," stresses the reaction: which Italian claims are arising in Tunisia.
"The French Press of "Tunisia unanimously declares that Tunisia is an integral part of the French Empire. Two of the most important papers in Tunis recently asserted we will never agree to see Tunisia transformed into another Czecholslovakia'."
The opinion generally voiced in the leftist press is that the Italian attitude will prevent the Franco-German rapprochement, as Germany is constantly supporting the policies of Fascism.
"In order to resist the common pressure' of Italy and the Reich, France must rely upon Great Britain but also upon Poland, on the Soviet Union, on Rumania—briefly, upon all those who are threatened by—the Fascist will to expand," the Socialist "Lo Populaire" declared:
Is there any French man who can approve how a Franco-German rap-brochement, i. e. of a rapprochement of our country with a Government which supports foreign claims against our national territory," the Communist "L'Humanite" asked.—Havaz. fo do so.
M. Daladier, the Premier, assumed personal charge of penalties against strikers in arsenals and naval dockyards. The punishment of these workers is expected to be severe because of the necessity of maintaining military discipline.
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