Division of French Colonies and Home Territory Among Axis Powers Reported to Be Nazi Terms Munich, June 18.
Chancellor Adolf Hitler and Premier Benito Mussolini at pin, today (midnight Shanghai daylight saving time) here began their historic conference, which may decide the fate of France, Italian officials said the Axis Powers would continue the war until France accepted their peace terms.
Berlin afternoon papers reaching here indicated that the terms would be extremely severe, since Germany would take into full account the French attitude in the past 21 years.
Conversations between the two leaders began in the official residence of the Fuehrer at 4 p.m. in the presence of Herr Joachim von Ribbentrop, Reich Foreign Minister, Count Galeazzo Ciano, Italian Foreign Minister, and General Wifhelm Keitel. Chief of the High Command of the German Armed Forces.
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