ITALY AND SPAIN

Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 58, 3 December 1923, Page 7

ITALY AND SPAIN

SERIES OF CONVENTIONS BEING PREPARED

ECONOMIC, DIPLOMATIC AND STRATEGIC

By Telegraph—Press Association.

—Copyright. (Rec. December 2, 5.5 p.m.) London, December 1. The “Daily Telegraph’s” diplomatic correspondent, writing regarding the Ita'.o-Spanish reapproachment says there is reason to believe the result will be a series of conventions—firstly, commercial and economic: secondly, diplomatic; thirdly, strategic. The convention in the first category has already been initialled, the second is being drafted, and the third will require to be worked out by experts. The primary impulse is believed to have come from Rome. Signor Mussolini would seem to have borrowed a leaf’from the book of the British Empire, for closely linked with tho economic arrangement is a wider scheme for linking up the relations between Italy and Spain with Spanish South America. the great Latin States on the other side of the ocean being regarded by Italy ns an elastic -but powerful federation of Latin stock and culture.—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn.