Rome, May 3.
"The rulers of all countries want peace, but their conceptions of peace vary." M. Gregor Gafencu, Rumanian Foreign Minister, visiting here, stated today before departing for Belgrade.
He stressed that his tour of the European capitals was for information and did not aim at the conclusion strengthen Italo-Rumanian relations, "which have not been affected by Ttaly's occupation of Albania." He emphasized that Italo-Rumanian relations were not only based on sentiment, but had great economic importance.
Questioned by newspaper men, he declared that he believed the present Polish-German dispute to be most serious, and expressed the hope that it might be settled peaceably, in a spirit of mutual understanding.
Before his departure today, M. Gafencu received at his apartments the new British Ambassador here, Sir Percy Lorraine; the French Ambassador, M. Andre Francois-Poncet; the Polish -Ambassador, M. Boleslas Blugoeszowki, and the Turkish and Greek envoys, Huseyin Ragip Baydur and Petros A. Metaxas.
Earlier in the day, Count Galeazzo Ciano, Italian Foreign Minister, had received Sir Percy, Lorraine, who handed him a copy of his credentials. Havas.
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