Announced Paris, Pec, 17.
M. Pierre Laval, former' Premier and Minister of Foreign. Affairs, raised the question of General Franco's claim to belligerent rights. in the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Senate yesterday.
In reply, M. Georges Bonnet, the Foreign Minister, asserted. that the Government stood by {he London Agreement, which provided that such rights should only be granted under conditions which had not yet been fulfilled, Subsequent discussion on the subject suggested that, while some members favoured the appointment of an agent at Burgos, the Committee opposed any solution which, as one member said, "would give to Italy the keys of the Mediterranean,"—Reuter,
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