The Archive · 1938

Anglo-Italian Pact Now in Sight

Initialling of Accord Expected by Week-end

Rome, Apr. 11.

Anglo-Italian negotiations were practically concluded as a result of yesterday's interview between Italy's Foreign Minister, Count Galeazzo Ciano, and the British Ambassador in Rome, Lord Perth. The text of the agreement is being drafted today, semi-official circles declare.

Mr, Maurice B. Ingram, head of the South-east Eurpoean Department of the British Foreign Office, who arrived here last evening, is taking part in the work of wording the accord.

The end of next week is expected by the same semi-official quarters, to see the initialling of the long-sought agreement, which Britain is declared to have tried especially to have signed -before Reichsfuehrer Adolf Hitler's visit to Rome in May.—Havas.

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