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Rome, June 30.
Signor Cayga, Il Duces mouthpiece, in commenting today on Lord Halifax's speech, writes that the impossibility of negotiations at present is entirely and directly due to the encirclement policy, which is an antithesis of collaboration, a living denial of that peace under which it tries to mask itself.
Since Munich, he says, Anglo-French policy had been in open reaction against every principle of collaboration. The encirclement policy, he concludes, is merely one of intransigeance and of war.
The view in well-informed circles here is that Lord Halifax's speech contains no concrete proposal which might tend towards the opening of conversations, thus leading to an European detente. It is felt, on the contrary, that the speech appears to close the door.
The speech made by the French Prime Minister, M. Edouard Daladier, is also regarded as negative.
It is felt that the Totalitarian States can only take note that Anglo-French policy is stiffening, and if it hardens, it can only render tension more acute and lead to serious complications.—Reuter.
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