Answering unequivocally aims" expounded by the Rome Government, M. Bonnet declared: "Our first duty is to safeguard our! territory' and that of our Empire. That which was built by French labour and French blood, French. courage will know how to defend. We have received an inheritance: we are determined to transmit, it une touched to our descendants,"
"Furthermore," the Foreign Mini ster added, "France cannot renounce her influence in other parts of the world, nor can she give up her Erlendships and commitments in Con. tral and' Eastern Europe. We hold there a valuable appanage and shall not forsake it"
"Rrance," he said, "resigns nowhere."
Efforts undertaken by France to! dispel any misunderstanding with. Kaly were then reviewed. "The peoples of both countries," he" said, Mare anxious for one" another's {riendship, We cannot think of Italy. as commiting an aggression against France, and no Frenchman will ever dream' of his country as. launching] against Taly an impious and revolt ing war." M. Bonnet then recalled the cultural patrimony common. to the two countries and spoke of the blood once shed by both for the same cause but, he added, France will not relinquish one single square inch of] territory.
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