SITUATION IN EUROPE

Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 3, 5 January 1939, Page 9

SITUATION IN EUROPE

REPRESENTATIONS IN ROME

U.S. AMBASSADOR

(By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.)

LONDON, January 4

Acting on instructions from Washington, Mr. William Phillips, American Ambassador in Rome, called on Signor Mussolini yesterday and had a talk which lasted for 40 minutes.

One report says that Mr. Phillips handed Signor Mussolini a personal message from i President Roosevelt containing certain concrete proposals, but the United States Embassy refuses information, declaring that any announcement regarding the conversation must come from Washington.

According to the Rome correspondent of the "Daily Mail," the conversation was concerned with certain aspects of the dictator regimes in Europe which; Mr. Phillips emphasised, were causing disquiet in America. Questions affect-

ing United States trade with Italy were also discussed. The meeting is described as friendly and generally aimed at securing better understanding between the United States and Europe.

The Rome correspondent of the "News Chronicle" says it is understood that Mr. Phillips, who recently returned from a visit to America, expressed President Roosevelt's very grave concern at the present situation in Europe, specially in regard to re-, ports current in Washington that Italy and Germany are planning further sensational activities in the spring.