Conversations have been going on between the United States Govern ment and representative: the British Empire as to the possibility erding to ti pondent of the New York Times.
Discussions hi also been Rome, Sept. 20.
The first blueprint of the Axis plan for a "new order in Europe," based on the assumption of Italian occupation of Egypt and German occupation of the British Isles within the next several weeks, was reliably reported to have been drafted here yesterday during the meeting between Premier Benito Mussolini and the German Foreign Minister, Herr Joachim von Ribbentrop.
So far-reaching is this first draft of the new European order believed to be—envisaging problems in southeastern Europe such as Albanian aspirations in Greece and Yugoslavian and Spanish claims against Gibraltar—that a meeting between Premier Mussolini and Chancellor Adolf Hitler is expected in the near future—United Press, Hull United States State, and Lord Lothian, Ambassador to Washington, and Mr. Casey, Australian Minister to Wash ington. It is stressed that they are still in the preliminary stage. No decisions have been made nor any commitments.
The possibility as the whether arrangements for the use of bases embracing South Africa, Australia and New Zealand could not be mutually beneficial are now being explored, the correspondent continues.
Diplomatic circles in Washingto say that what is to be discussed is merely an arrangement for the use of bases, which might be handled by executive action as far as the United States is concerned.
No final decision November.—Reuter. expected until
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