A determined stand with regard to Italian claims to Tunis was taken at a meeting of the Colonies Commission Chamber last night.
A communique issued later stated that the Commission "exchanged views on the general situation im North Africa, and unanimously protested against the pretensions put forward in the Italian Chamber threatening the integrity of the French Colonial Empire."
A resolution was unanimously adə opted stating that the Commission "addressed to the population of Tunis, Which has given France such moving testimonies of loyalty, an assurance of its affectionate solicitude, and of the unanimous will of the representatives of the nation, within the framework of the diplomatic conventitws, not to permit any interference with the liberty of the peoples under the French flag, with their common aspirations, and interests, and with the unity of NorthAfrica within the integral bounds of the Empire."
The Commission asked that foreign propaganda should not be tolerated, and decided to send a delegation to M. Edouard Daladier, the Prime ego a——measures should Africa—Reuter.
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