Rome, June 16.
The meeting at Venice between the dictators of Italy and Germany was arrangea_on the sudden initia tive of Herr Adolf Hitler, the Chancellor of Germany, according to an important article to-day in "Giornale d'Italia" written by Signor Gayda, who is regarded as the mouthpiece of Signor Mussolini.
The article further revealed that the relations between Germany and Soviet Russia, which had grown "cold, and almost hostile," played an. important part in the conversations.
Because Germany considered a Franco-Soviet pact hostile, Soviet Russia sent to Berlin on the eve of, the Venice meeting a proposal for the conclusion of an Oriental Locarno Pact, to be guaranteed by France, in which Poland, the USSR. Czecho-Slovakia and! Get ay would participate.
Litvinoff, the Soviet Foreign Commissar, however, was given. a refusal at Berlin on June 13, because the proposal involved the policy of
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