Washington, May 3.
'HE Italian Ambassador, Prince Colonna, conferred for fifteen minutes with Mr. Sumner Welles, Under-Secretary of State, yesterday afternoon, and afterwards went to see President Roosevelt, These conversations have created considerable interest.
Welles later said that the State Department had received a full report from the United States Ambassador in Rome, Mr. William Phillips, on his interview with Signor Mussolini on Tuesday. The talk, he said, was of a general character and consisted of an interchange of views on the international situation, It is implied at the State Department following these talks that the Government is of the opinion that Italy is not on the brink of entering the war. Mr.
Welles himself refused to comment directly on Italy's attitude towards belligerency, but he told pressmen that the State Department was giving no consideration whatever to the question of warning Americans to leave Italy.
This is regarded as indirect confirmation of dispatches from Rome that Signor Mussolini told Mr. Phillips that Italy does not now contemplate entering the war.—Reuter.
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