CO-OPERATION Between Italy and Britain

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 168, 3 August 1937, Page 7

CO-OPERATION Between Italy and Britain

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FAVOURABLE NOTES EXCHANGED Mussolini Wishes to be Friends PRELUDE TO TALKS

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(Beceived 3, 1.5 p.m.) LONDON, Aug. 2. Coirat Gfrandi called at Downtng Street and handed Mr. Neville Chamberlain a personal letter from Sijjnor Mussolini in reply to ihe Prime Minister 's letter of last Week. The Daily Telegraph's diplomatic eorrespondent gatliers that tlie reply ieft no doubt of tlie sincere desire of the ltalian Government to restore the co-opera-tion existing between London and Rome during the Locarno years 1925-193* "Mr. Chamberlain 's Governinent is now dffcling with foreign affairs much more promptly and more directly than during the Baldwin regime,,, eomments tho ' Telegraph, "Mr. Chamberlain himself taking a more actiVe part, in cloSe consultation with the Foreign Secretary.7 He is deter-! mined to eliminate the Anglo- - ltalian misapprehension. " The Times Rome eorrespondent aays: It is not doubted here that 11 Duce reciprocates Mr. Cham-. berlain's wish for the restoration ©£ friendly relations.. The boyeott ©f English news ended to-day when the newspapers, for the first time in four months, published direct news from London, giving prominence to the favourable British reaction to Mr. Chamberlain 's letter to II Duce. The present moves are evidently preparatory to diplomatic conversations ©f an important charaeter."