Show INTI II NAZI ift I OVE LOCKED BLOCKED i iI i- i I ITALY TALY L BARS BAR PUN Ai TO CURB RB HITLER HIT LER 1 French Demand Rejected By Fascists Who Refuse to Join in Use of t Sanctions G German Envoy Called Into London Conclave By United Press j. j LONDON March farch I 13 An Arf 2 agreement to forego mill mill- tary sanctions against Germany Ger many at least for the present present pres pres- ent was understood to Io have been reach reached c by Britain France B Belgium and It Italy y at t a a meeting of or the Locarno signatories tonight By Br Associated Press LONDON March 13 A h high gh authority stated today that Italy had flatly r refused fus d to impose sanctions a against ea Ty shortly I after the thefT th t fT f E rj T British foreign office announced an an- d The Th do door r Is Still kim open for Germany to ni make ke keany t any kind d of an offer it wishes The Italian action was regarded as a stumbling block in the way of the French demand that military rY rYland land and economic sanctions be ap applied Ue against Ge Germany ny for sending ng troop troops into the Rhineland I. I Russia had been aup supporting France in demanding t these sane sanc lane So had Cz Czecho Czechoslovakia clio clio- o. o slovakia and Rumania the tho member members mem mem- hers bers of the little entente Nazi at Parle Parley Farley This sudden Interruption In the progress toward punishment of Hitler became known after Ambassador von Hoesch of or Germany went to the foreign office for a conference It was stated that Italy told theother the theother theother other powers that her dispute with Ethiopia must be settled before she aha could participate actively In smoothing smoothing smoothing smooth smooth- ing out the Rhineland An Informed Italian source told the Associated Press in Rome that Italy feels morally bound to protest against sanctions being applied to Germany Changes Stand In view of the fact that Great Britain with the consent of at France made mado the Italo war a at t test st case for league of nations nations' sanctions sanctions sanc sane the Italians were said Bald to have taken the stand that no British or French statesman now can go goto goto goto to Italy and ask the Italian people to fight for them In any eventuality eventual eventual- ity whatsoever The same condition It W was said laid applies to any new Loc Locarno rno pact which might be formed since without without without with with- out Italy's support any agreement reached would be merely an Anglo Anglo- French drench pact The position of Pierre Etienne Flandin French foreign minister stand was made delicate by Italy's Cant Can't The demand in France for fol sanctions sanctions sanc against Italy was said t to beso beso be beso so strong that he ho was In effect placed in iii the position of saying i I 1 cant can't go back to France and tell the French people they are aro Jess Important than Ethiopia Emp Empero ro Hallo Halle Selassie can get what we we cant Ambassador von Hoesch remained In n the foreign office only a short t time ime He said ho he had not talked to o Locarno signatories but he ha de declined declined de de- dined to say whether he had talked to Anthony Eden the tho British foreign foreign for for- eign secretary It was Immediately rumored through Whitehall that Eden had given the German envoy a D. request signed by Great Grent Britain France Belgium and Italy that Hitler make mako a conciliatory move Open Door Combined Com with th the e e foreign office announcement of an open door observers were ero given the impression impression sion slon that the British were still hopeful that the international sit sll- Continued on Par Two C J. J S SOVIET PLEDGES ARMED SUPPORT Continued from Pap Pac One On aU n might be bs eased as d and the Im- Im pane pallo between Germany and Franco Franca x broken peacefully Von Van Hoesch was wa followed into th the biff building on on Downing street by J. J A A. C. C secretary general genera o of the league of nations and Nicholas Nicho las JO foreign minister o of Rumania and the leading figure In Inthe Inthe Inthe the little entente Authoritative sources said they thoy believed Germany was about to be given Iven its lu l la lt t chance to to remove tr tro pI from the Rhineland before re reth th tho signatories of the Locarno treaty and the other ather members ra of ot th league of nations took action Soviet Support SupportS Sovi S Soviet vi t Russia already had thrown J Its s support to France Jn n the Jatter latter lat Jat- Jat- Jat ter nations nation's demand that tho the troops either be pulled out of ot the long- long demilitarized zone zon or that Germany be bit punished with military and economic eco coo action Ten T n minutes after Von Hoesch entered the tho foreign office he was followed through the door by Pierre Pierre- Etienne Flandin foreign minister of France Joseph Paul minister of ot state of France and Ambassador Dino Dine Grand Grandt of ot Italy Speculation was wal aroused as to tc whether Ambassador von might participate in a session of ol the tho Locarno treaty powers and whether he might resent present some new message menage from Hitler Bitler |