London, Mar. 10.
Refusal to give assurances that Germany would not interfere in Austria and an indication that the Reich would be compelled to take measures if "German blood" were shed there, were the highlights of to-day's conference between Herr Joachim von Ribbentrop and Lord Halifax at the Foreign Office to-day.
After a discussion of the role of the Army, firstly, in home defence in which ground defences against air attack are now first in priority and, secondly, in the discharge of overseas commitments for the defence of British territories and bases, the Minister came to its third role as a strategic reserve and, under this head, its use in ce-operation in the defence of territories of allies.
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