It is hoped and believed that the \Anglo-Italian Agreement will bring an end to tension between Great Britain and Italy and will restore the historic friendship between the two countries, Many hope that it will open an era of peace and under-Standing among the Western Powers, France, it is expected, will lose no time in establishing contact with Italy to try to find a solution to Franco-Italian problems, Italian comments on the Agreement emphasize that the Berlin-Rome axis has in way been no weakened, Rome has kept Berlin an fait with all that has passed, just as Great Britain has kept France informed of the daily progress of the negotiations, Thus, there has been the closest collaboration between the four great Powers and there is little doubt that conversations between Great Britain and Germany will follow in due course.
The signature of the Agreement, the prospects of a stable Government in France and the growing strength of Great Britain's, armaments, coupled with her steadfast pursuit of European appeasement, have produced, in the opinion of very competent observers, a situation more favourable to the prospects of lasting peace than any sequence of events for a long time past.—Reuter,
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