London, Dec. 18.
ASEIST leaders in Rome were convinced that if they presented official claims upon any French territories, the British Prime Minister, Mr. Neville Chamberlain, would cancel his projected visit to Italy next month, politicians remarked here today.
Commenting upon Signor Benito Mussolini's address at Carbonia today, when he inaugurated that new coal city, they declared that apparently the last parleys between Lord Perth, the British Ambassador in Rome, and Count Galeazzo Ciano, Italian Foreign, Minister, convinced Il Duce of this fact.
Observers see such beliefs substantiated in the fact Signor Mussolini refrained from any anti-French declarations whatsoever in the course of his speech at Carbonia.
It was most likely that Mr, Chamberlain's declaration in the House of Commons, opposing any modification" of the Mediterraneane status quo, had also influenced Il Duce.
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