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Over the Wire

Summary of the Foreign Picture

PARIS--France said to have joined Britain in warning to Italy. Threat of "full force of British and French arms" reported invoked in case of Fascist attempts to upset Mediterranean status quo.

ROME--Italy calls 350,000 more military reservists to colors. Press advises United States to "mind own business."

WASHINGTON--Secretaries Hall and Morgenthan, after conferring with President Roosevelt, reflect four of general war unless Nazi-Fascist threats to world economic structure are curbed. Sen. Byrnes reveals plan to dispose of surplus farm stocks abroad through barter system designed to give U.S. huge war supplies.

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