Berlin, Oct, 25.
Germany continued its diplomatic offensive yesterday as Chancellor Adolf Hitler conferred with France's Marshall Philippe Petain and speculation mounted regarding the Fuehrer's earlier meeting with Spain's Generalissimo Francisco Franco.
Chancellor Hitler received Marshall Petain "somewhere in France" in the presence of Herr Joachim Von Ribbentrop, the German Foreign Minister, and M. Pierre Laval, the French Vice-Premier, according to an official communique. No other details of the meeting were announced immediately.
Although officials were nearly as secretive concerning the Hitler-Franco meeting Wednesday, it was pointed out that "evidently great significance is attached to the meeting, judging from the great banner headlines in the newspapers."
"Entirely Natural"
Officials said German political circles consider it "entirely natural
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