Federal Union of Europe The reply of the -Fascist Government
to the Brian(' Memorandum on a European Federal Union is distinctly clever. It premises that no scheme of Union will be of any value that does not provide for the collaboration of Soviet Russia and Turkey. It then argues that the Briand scheme_ as it stands endangers the organic unity of the League, while suggesting machinery which would have the same defects that are apparent in the League.
Finally, the whole idea of basing the Union on " security " --in the French conception of the term----is rejected in favour of a conception of progressive disarmament on the lines of the London Naval Conference. Franco- Italian parity is, in fact, proposed as a useful lightning- conductor. The Italian Government expresses its readi- ness, however, to discuss the question of European Union
at a conference. * * * *
