The Archive · 1937

EFFORT TO REVIVE STRESA FRONT?

German Report from Paris of British Intentions Cologne, July 27.

The Paris correspondent of "Koel-niche Zeitung" says French political circles anticipate that the British Government will try to conclude a supplementary gentlemen's agreement with Italy to pave the way for better relations between the two The new agreement would up with. the Spanish question so that Italy would actively associate herself with the nonintervention programme while in return, the British Government would undertake a settlement of the Abyssinian question to—Italy's satisfaction by inducing the League of Nations at its next session to refuse to recognize Abyssinia any longer as an independent state, French political circles, the correspondent says, also cherish improving the Franco-Italian relations, thereby re-estabüshing the Stresi Front of France, Italy and Britain. The Quai d'Orsay would therefore welcome any efforts by the British Government in this direction.—Trans-Ocean.

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