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HITLER’S STRATEGY. REBUFF BY DUCE. BRENNER REVELATIONS. (United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) Received April 1.8, 10 a.m. NEW YORE, April 17. In a copyright message from Stockholm to the Chicago Daily Nows, Leland Stowe says that Hitler, at the Brenner Conference, asked Signor Mussolini for wholesale Italian mobilisation in an effort to blackmail France into a separate peace. Hitler’s demands were so excessive and provocative that. Signor Mussolini’s reception was very cold. The chief other demands were: (1) That Italy provide Germany with fifty submarines. (2) That she send an army of 500.000 to Libya to threaten Egypt and Tunisia. (3) That she send troops across Spain to the French Pyrenees frontier to frighten France, even without General Franco’s permission. It is reliably stated that Signor Mussolini believed the plan would drag Italy into war, for which she was not prepared.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 119, 18 April 1940, Page 7
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