EUROPEAN SCENE

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 102, 27 October 1938, Page 10

EUROPEAN SCENE

BETTER RELATIONS

CONVERSATIONS IN ROME

HUNGARY'S CLAIMS

By Telegraph — Press Association—Copyright.

(Received October 27, 2.30 p.m.)

LONDON, October 26.

The Berlin correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" states that a settlement of the dispute between Hungary and Czechoslovakia, giving Hungary Kosice and other towns, is claimed as likely to emerge from conversations in Rome by Her r Ribbentrop, but it is not expected that Germany will support the Hungarian claim for Bratislava. It is likely that Italy will abandon her tentative support of the Polish and Hungarian claims in Ruthenia, Germany's objection to a common Polo-Hungarian frontier prevailing.

The correspondent adds that Herr Ribbentrop and Count Ciano, the Italian Foreign Minister, had a discussion of Franco-German relations. There is at present no question of a /pact between France and Germany, but Herr Hitler is expected to make a friendly declaration towards France on the lines of the Munich document. It will be necessary to decide how far a no-more-war declaration by France and Germany can be reconciled with the terms of the Italo-German understanding, but in view of the recognition by France of the Abyssinian conquest that the difficulty can be, overcome.

It is stated that as a result of the improvement in Franco-German relations an atmosphere has been created in which negotiations for a non-aggres-sion pact can be begun in the spring.

Elsewhere it is suggested that Herr Ribbentrop and Count Ciano also. discussed a reply by Italy and Germany to the re-armament of Britain, the U.S.A., and France, the effect to Spain of the application of the Anglo-Italian agreement, the possibility of improved relations between Britain and Germany, and Italy's part in supporting the German colonial claims.