REBUFFED IN ROME
RIBBENTROP’S MISSION APPARENTLY ABORTIVE. DISAPPOINTMENT OF NAZI HOPES. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY. March 12. A common feature in the otherwise variegated pattern of the news reports reaching London from Rome of Herr von Ribbentrop's interview yesterday with the Pope —an audience which the Vatican has been at pains to emphasise was granted al the special request of the Reich—is that Herr von Ribbentrop saw Count. Ciano and Signor Mussolini again before leaving Rome. Observers in London point out that, if Herr von Ribbentrop’s sudden descent on Rome in the middle of the Soviet-Finnish talks and before Mi Sumner Welles's second visit was intended to produce some striking manifestation designed to recapture for Germany's diplomatic initiative which since the ill-starred Moscow Pact has passed to other hands, the terms of the uninformative and non-committal statement issued at the end of the German-Italian talks, with its no more than formal tribute to the spirit of the pact of alliance, can only represent severe disappointment of Nazi hopes.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 March 1940, Page 7
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168REBUFFED IN ROME Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 March 1940, Page 7
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