FOREIGN AFFAIRS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 208, 3 August 1937, Page 10

FOREIGN AFFAIRS.

PROMPT BRITISH METHODS. CO-OPERATION WITH ITALY. Received August 3, 1.5 p.m. LONDON, Aug. 2. Count Dino Grandi called at Downing Street to-day and handed to Mr Neville Chamberlain a personal letter from Signor Mussolini in reply to the Prime Minister’s letter of last week.

The Daily Telegraph’s diplomatic correspondent gathers that the reply left no doubt of the sincere desire of the Italian Government to restore the co-operation existing between London and Rome during the Locarno Years, 1925-35. “Mr Chamberlain’s Government is now dealing with foreign affairs much more promptly and more directly than during the Baldwin regime,” says the Telegraph. “Mr Chamberlain himself is taking a more active part in close consultation with the Foreign Secretary. He is determined to eliminate Anglo-Italian misapprehension.” The Times Rome correspondent says: “It is not doubted here that II Duce reciprocates Mr Chamberlain’s wish for the restoration of friendly relations. The boycott of English news ended to-day, when newspapers for tlie first time for 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 of an important character.”

Earlier details appear on page 9