The Archive · 1939

London, Mer. 1

A meeting between Herr Hitler and Signor Mussolini in North Italy, near the Brenner Pass, is unofficially forecast by Berlin correspondents.

The reason is stated to be the need for a revision of the Axis policy in consequence of recent changes in Europe.

Germany is credited by correspondents with being disappointed at the result of the visit of Count Ciano, the Italian Foreign Minister, to Poland, which, apart from a fine bag when hunting yesterday,' are thought in Berlin io have been negligible.

Political circles seem even less concerned over the anti-German demonstrations in Poland than with the belief that Count Ciano "signally failed to secure any sort of assurance from Colonel Joseph Beck (the Polish Foreign Minister) in case of war in which France was involved."

The effect of this circumstance on Italy's Mediterannean policy is held to justify the dictators' conference on general polic, Reuter.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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