British Treaty i Pact with Turkey Said to Have Changed Situation Rome, May 24.
Count Ciano, the Foreign Minister, arrived from Berlin this morning and immediately reported to Signor Mussolini regarding his talks with the German leaders.
Political circles do not discard the possibility of Italy denouncing the Anglo-Italian agreement of April 16, 1938, as a sequel to the military alliance with Germany and with the. excuse that the Anglo-Turkish agreement has modified the situation in the Mediterranean.
These quarters declare that Italy did not get any advantages from the agreement with Great Britain, for she expected that London would intervene in Paris jn, support of the Italian claims, However, the British Government refused the role of mediator between the two countries.
Italy, they said, fully respected the terms of the agreement by withdrawing her legionaries from Spain while Britain, on the contrary, is inaugurating a policy of encirclement against Germany and Italy.
Rome would thus resume her freedom of action, which would allow her to strengthen the Italian garrisons in the Dodecanese Islands and Tripolitania, directly—threatening Egypt, and would resume her anti-British wireless campaign in the Near East—Hava:
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