ITALY & GERMANY.
REPORTED DISCUSSIONS IN ROME. TRADE & POLITICAL ISSUES. SOME ARGUMENTS AGAINST ALLIANCE. (Received Tuesday, 10.'25 p.m.) LONDON, May 26. The "Daily Telegraph’s” Rome correspondent reports that it is officially announced that Signor Mussolini received the German Ambassador, Herr von Hassell, it is believed .in connection with new advances from Germany. It is stated that in return for close Italian friendship, Herr Hitler is willing, firstly to undertake not to interfere with Austrian independence for a term of years and secondly to negotiate a favourable trade treaty. The only arguments heard in Rome against such an alliance are Italy’s - aversion to a German expansion of influence in the Mediterranean and to German rivalry with Italy in the Balkans.
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Wairarapa Age, 27 May 1936, Page 5
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