Berlin, June 22, The Italian Ambassador to Beni Count Dino Alferi this morning called on Col von Ribbentrop, Foreign Minister, and formally informed him of Italy's decision to participate in the war against the Soviet Union. Observers said that the plan for a joint Italo-German action against the USSR. bad been laid at the last Brenner Pass conference and asserted that Italy's part would be to block wp the Russian Fleet in the Black Sea and prevent it from joining the British Mediterranean Fleet.—Domei.
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