The Archive · 1940

Italian Promise Given

Rome, Jan. 8.

"Unimpeachable sources said that Count Ciano had promised the Hungarian Foreign Minister that italy would do her utmost to prevent Russia from crossing the Car-pathans. He also was said to have promised that Italy would take an effective "preventive stand" in the event of attempted Communist expansion toward the east Count Csaky was believed to have agreed to postpone Hungary's revisionist claims against Rumania in exchange for Italy's facilitating Hungary's relations: with Yugoslavia—United Press. ued

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