/Four-Power Instrument Envisaged; Berlin to Leave Colonial Settlement Up to London; Goodwill Test Threatened Refugee Influx Being Countered Beni, Oct. 15.
Soundings are being made here between Great Britain and Germany exploring the possibilities of limiting air armaments, it is understood. These soundings, it is gathered, have not yet reached a concrete stage.
The idea of an air pact has been brought nearer to practical politics as a result of the supposed decline of ihe Soviet as a serious military factor, it is learned.
A British, German, French, Italian Pact, apparently, is contemplated.
Rumours that the Germans proposed that the Pact be based on a British "Air Force one-third of the size of Germany's or that Germany threatened to abrogate the Anglo-German naval treaty unless Britain was willing to negotiate an Air Pact suitable to Germany, may be dismissed. it is stated here.
Herr Hitler looks to Great Britain to put forward in due course proposals for a settlement of the colonial question, it is stated here.
No demand, it is further learned, is to be expected from the German side, as Herr Hitler is regarded as having made a request when he said: "There is the one awkward question of colonies, but there will be no mobilization about that."
This statement was made to Mr.
Neville Chamberlain in his conversations with Herr Hitler during the recent crisis.
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