At 11.12 a.m, the two Foreign Min-tsters proceeded to the adjoining room, where they spoke over the radio, Count Ciano declared that the pact will strengthen the solidarity of Germany and aly both militarily and politically, and expressed the determi ination of the two peoples to face their future in common. The two countries are' animated by tie supreme desire to maintain peace but fare firmly determined to defend their Inalienable rights to tite, Herr von Ribbentrop stated that Germany and Italy now constitute an indlissoluble community.
He emimed that the pact is a normal conclusion to the Fuchrer's desire, expressed early in May, to consolidate the relations between Moly and Germany with a comprehensive political and military alliance, Two European Blocs London, May 22. The creation of two rival blocs of European powers was today seen to be impending in the course of this week with the signature of the Tia German military alliance and the expected conclusion of the Anglo-Soviet defensive accords.
'A military entente between Great Britain and Sovie Russia is now accepted by the British Cabinet, it was slated. And observers pointed our that with the conclusion of this entente, there would be a consider able superiority of forres on the side of the anti-aggression bloc, Britain, France, Russia, Turkey, Poland and Rumania will' place all their forces at the service of peace, they stated, while, on the other hand, neither Spain nor Japan is likely to Join "the Malo. German military At the same time, British political quarters still emphasized that don's attitude towards the Reich was "by no means aggressive." If Germany and Moly forsake their methods of force and resume policies of cooperation, Britain will be ready to try again' to collaborate, they stated.
"They voiced hopes that the evident superiority of the anti-aggression
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