Paris, Oct. 26.
Considerable interest has been aroused throughout Europe by a remarkable account of a recent interview between Herr Joachim von Ribbentrop, German Ambassador to Great Britain, at present visiting Italy, and Signor Mussolini, given in the French newspaper "Lo Jour."
The journal asserts that Herr von Ribbentrop told Il Duce that the programme of Germany's colonial claims, soon to be published in Berlin, would include the return to the Reich of the Cameroons and Manda and Urundi. formerly German East Africa and ceded to Belgium after the War, and the creation of a vast international territory in Africa to be exploited by Britain, France, Italy and. Germany.
Herr von Ribbentrop, the newspaper adás, also stated that a colonial office would be created shortly in Berlin, He is reported to have advised Signor Mussolini:— l. Not to cause a violent break of the Non-intervention Committee but to gain tim 2. Sign an anti-Communist pact with pen before the opening of the Brus-conference, Present concrete proposals for a sort of international government for Palestine, similar to that for the Saar prior to the plebiscite—Reuter.
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