Rome, May 17.
New posters were plastered throughout Rome during the night and Italians awakened this morning to read portions of a speech by Signor Pietro Giovacchina, Corsican Italian Nationalist leader. The Italian press printed dispatches of alleged arrests of Italian leaders by the British in Malta.—United Press, "Hints" about Gibraltar London, May 17.
Italian diplomats in Paris are now speaking volubly of the "necessity" of internationalizing Gibraltar and in numerous informal conversations they have also mentioned claims on Tunisia, Djibouti and the Addis Abba railway, reports reaching here from France said today.
When Mr. William Phillips, U. S. Ambassador in Rome, on Wednesday asked if he should advise United States citizens to leave Italy, Count Galeazzo Ciano, Italian Foreign Minister, refused to give him any counsel, Italian sources said. During their talks last week, Count. Ciano told Mr. Phillips that such advice to Americans was not necessary, they said.—United Press.
"Our own vital interests are widespread," he said, "and more than ever, the protection of the whole American hemisphere against invasion, or control by non-Americans, the united support of 21 American republics, including the United States.
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