DIPLOMATIC TALKS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 74, 24 February 1938, Page 9

DIPLOMATIC TALKS.

STATESMEN’S MEETINGS. BRITAIN’S NEGOTIATIONS. Received February 24 12 noon. LONDON, Feb. 23. The Australian Associated Press says: “With the a'nnouncenjent of Britain’s new foreign policy, pent-up diplomatic activity in Europe li*as been unloosened. TtTo British Cabinet s sessions to-day dealt with the forthcoming talks with the Duce. “Poland’s foreign Minister (Colonel Beck) is at present holding important conversations with Field-Marsliall Goering (German Air Minister) at "Warsaw. “Herr Von Ribbcntrop (German Foreign Minister) is expected in Rome next week, when the Non-Intervention Committee also resumes,” adds the Associated Press. “The French are expected to confer with the British in the near future. The Anglo-German talks which Herr Hitler and Lord Halifax commenced will resume before the termination of the Rome conversations. “It is known that Mr Chamberlain and the Foreign Office have reason to believe that Signor Mussolini is extremely anxious for an agreement with Britain, but details in connection with it are not known, as is customary, by the Foreign Office, but were conveyed direct to Mr Chamberlain through an outside informant.”