Munich, Dec, 24.
As in previous years, Reichsfuehrer Adolf Hitler passed Christmas Eve today among Nazi veterans in this historic tap-room of the Loewenbrau beer-house, decorated with greenery and Christmas trees for the occasion. Some 1,800 Nazis, dressed in brown shirts, gathered here today. These were veterans of the old guard. Gauleiter Adolf Wagner, Herr Hitler's "voice double," read out a brief address: "There is on earth no people happier than the German people," he stated and recalled the great events of 1938, congratulating Germany upon successes in Austria and the Sudetenland, "These lands can celebrate for the first time a Christmas as members of the Great Reich."
He eulogized National Socialist, "whose task as an educator has already yielded fruit" He proclaimed Herr Hitler's faith in Germany in the coming year, which "is rich in hopes"—Havas.
Signor Virginia Gayda, writing in the "Voce d'Italia," calls the forthcoming visit to Corsica of M. Edward Daladier, the French Premier, "provocative," because he will be accompanied by high military, naval znd air authorities. He says that this "warlike demonstration will be provocative for all Italy"
Referring to reports that the French Government will state that Ttalys denunciation of the 1935 Agreement restores the status quo, Signor Gayda writes that the status quo means that the state of hostility, which has divided France, and Italy, will be reopened. It means, he adds, that Italy reacquires the full right to react against the "overbearing treatment by the French authorities at Tunis."—Reuter.
Quai d'Orsay Reticent Paris, Dec. 25.
The French reply to the Italian Note, declaring that the Franco-Italian agreement of 1935 was cid, was the principle topic of a 2¥:-hour Cabinet meeting yesterday morning.
Official circles are. reticent about the contents of the reply, but it generally presumed it will emphasize that France has regarded the agreement as liquidating differences between France and Italy and, consequently, France can only note the Italian denunciation, which re-establishes French and Italian relations on.the status quo that existed before the agreement was made. M. Georges Bonnet, French Foreign Minister, also described at the meeting, the efforts he had made to effect a Christmas truce with Spain—Reuter.
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