The Archive · 1938

Berlin's Welcome

Berlin, Apr. 17.

Political quarters today welcome the Anglo-Italian Agreement as a contribution to peace and as harmonizing with the Berlin-Rome axis.

The Agreement has rekindled hope for an Anglo-German Agreement, especially as it is claimed that issues between Germany and Great Britain are fewer and less acute than those between Italy and Great Britain.

The signing of e Agreement is described here as "a big event in European and, possibly, even in world es, overshadowing everything else.

"Der Angriff" says that this is not yet a final and lasting revival of listorie Anglo-Italian friendship, but it provides the basis on which good-neighbour ly relations can prosper between the two Empires in the Mediterranean. The newspaper draws attention to the emphasis in the Italian press on the continued strength of the Berlin-Rome axis.

The "Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung" describes the Agreement as a "great success for Signor Mussolini Reuter.

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