HITLER & DUCE

Hokitika Guardian, 18 June 1934, Page 5

HITLER & DUCE

CONFERENCE ENDS

'MUSSOLINI’S ANNOUNCEMENT.

(United T>p.Bs i •sociation—'By Electrio 1 Telegraph—Copyright)

s >' '■ ' VENICE; June 15. “Herr Hitler and I have not met to remake the map of Europe, or to add’ to the uncertainties that arp weighing upon an anguished world, said Signor Mussolini, when addressing! 60,000 people, who crowded into St. Mark’s Square, in Venice. > II ibuce, who spoke from itlio balcony of the Royal Palace, added “We have met to try and dispel those

clouds which are darkening the European horizon, and to avoid a terrible I alternative. We have met to try and find that minimum of political unity without which Europe’s destiny is doomed to decline.” Ho Remarked: “T’aly’s *plower and greatness were (once only a poet’s dream. They are now a reality ! We shall defend our patrimony from those who would destroy it, and from those who would destroy it, and from the faint-hearted, whom we shall leave by the .roadside. We shall defend it by work, and, if necessary, with the sohg of machine guns.” ! Signor Mussolini was accorded a tremendous ovation (throughout liis address! He had to return to the balony and to jncknjowletigo >the cheers, of the concourse. An ! official communique has been issued which states that Signor Mussolini and Herr Hitler continued their conference and concluded it in a spirit of cordial collaboration. They made an examination of .the problems of .general policy, especially those more/ directly concerning their two countries. The personal relations thus started bet ween Herr Hitler and Siglior. Mussolini will be continued in the future, added the communique. Signor Cienco, the head of the Italian Press Bureau, told the journalists that the two Dictators had agreed to recognise Austria’s independance. The Bureau fyead added that no documents were signed, hut stated that Germany has how' 1 , .virtually abandoned the “Anschluss” (union, wiV*H Austria). Chancellor' Hitler had said that Ger r many ’ wds ’disposed to return to the League.of Nations, provided that her complete. rights regarding armaments were recognised. ' Signdr Cienco further added that Italy did; not take the ‘initiative in regard to this matter, - There was much saluting , and an exchn nge 'or 'complijnents , when' Signor Mussolini famvelled Herr Hitler at the .airport, when the, latter was, en route for Munich. The Italian press features the visit but it does not. disclose .the-results, beyond asserting the result will have worldwide, repercussiohs. '. \ tri