BRITAIN AND ITALY

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23008, 8 April 1938, Page 11

BRITAIN AND ITALY

MR. CHAMBERLAIN'S POLICY HOPES OF AGREEMENT IMPROVED RELATIONS LONDON, April 6 "Even among Mr. Chamberlain's critics there are many who now hold that he was right," says the Manchester Guardian's diplomatic correspondent. "Time alone will be the real test of an agreement with Italy. "Though nothing in itself, it is hoped that it will mean a gradual change for the better in the relations between Britain 6nd Italy. Official opinion both in Italy and Britain approves an agreement without immoderate hopefulness, but the Italian public, especially in the south, is almost extravagantly optimistic. "It is believed in London that Italy's influence in Spain will be less intractable than Germany's, which has established closer control on politicoeconomic life in General Franco's Spain. "Germany seeks a foothold in Spain* in order to use harbours and airports in the event of a general conflict, besides determining Spanish policy. Thus she hopes to immobilise considerable French and British forces in the Mediterranean area, thus weakening them elsewhere, especially in the North Sea."

NAZI PROPAGANDA POSTERS ON TRAINS CZECHS ASK FOR REMOVAL LONDON, April 6 The Minister of Railways, M. Rudolf Bechyne, has asked the German State railways to remove German propaganda from the windows of international trains, says the Prague correspondent of the Daily Telegraph. German trains crossing Czechoelovakian territory to Austria recently had pasted on them a leaflet saying: "One People. One Reich, One Leader." If the request is not observed, the Minister has ordered the railway officials to remove the propaganda themselves.