The Archive · 1940

"Worse Than Empty-Handed"

SPECIAL TO TNҢ ""N.C.D.N."

London, Mar. 16.

Referring to Herr von Ribbentrop's visit to Italy as a "Roman holiday: the "New York Times" Said that "he went home worse than empty-handed. Count Ciano's newspaper suggested that the Germanic hordes should stay on their own side of the Brenner Pass.

"The Chamber of Fasci Corporations broke into frenzied applause on hearing that Italy's frontier with Germany, as with France, was Yugoslavia, and was now covered by powerful fortifications."

According to the Bulgarian newspaper, "Utro": "Two possibilities remain for the Western Allies on the Western Front and Near East. Military operations in the latter are not impossible, and the Allied expeditionary force prepared for Finland can easily be sent to the East."

"Zero," also a Bulgarian papen, contained an article on the same lines.—Reuter.

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