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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 91, 18 April 1929, Page 7

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AUSTEN AND IL DUCE.

General European Situation

Reviewed.

EASTER CONVERSATION,

(British Official Wireless.)

(Received 12.30 p.m.)

RUGBY, April 17

Sir Austen Chamberlain was asked to give the substance of his conversations with Signor Mussolini at Florence. He said: "Having decided for personal reasons to spend Easter week at Uorence I asked His Majesty's Ambassador to inform Signor Mussolini of m\ intention and to say what pleasure it would give me to see him again if, as I thought possible, he himself were to be in the neighbourhood. "Signor Mussolini, who was spending a few days at Florence, was good enough to motor over to see me. This was the fifth occasion 011 which we have met, including our first meeting at Rome in 1024, and I welcomed it as giving me another opportunity for such an exchange of views with him as I habitually have with other foreign Ministers? at Geneva.

"No special importance was attached to the meeting and 110 subjects were proposed for discussion at it, but, as was natural, we passed in review the general European situation as well as the relations between our two countries, which are happily of the most cordial character. It will not be forgotten that Giv.it Britain and Italy are the guarantors of the Treaty of Locarno and have thus a common interest in the maintenance ot peace and the promotion of good relations among all the signatories of that treat v."