Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-08
ConfereeS Agree All Nations
Must Work Together for
Common Cause.
EXCHANGE OF ARMAMENT
DATA HELD NECESSARY
Statesmen Praise Hoover Debt
Holiday-Bruening and Curtius
Leaving for Berlin.
By the Associa ted Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ROME, August 8.-Premier Mussolini
today accepted Chancellor Bruentng S
invitation to 20 to Berlin for a return
visit with German officials at a date
yet to be determined
It will be the premier's FIRST formal
visit outside Italy since he went to
London in 1922 shortly after he be-
came head of the Italian state. He
himself will fix the date for the trip
to Berlin.
Announcement of his plans came aft
err he and Dino Grandi, the Italian for
eign minister, had conferred for an
hour at the German embassy with
Chancellor Bruening and Foreign Min
lister Curtius.
At the same time the conferees issued
Joint statement of the results OF the
meetings today and yesterday.
Views Exhanged.
Various exchanges of views have
taken place, accompanied by sense OF
reciprocal, friendly comprehension and
deep cordiality," the statement said.
1.-The general European situation has
been extensively examined and the ne
cessity for active collaboration by all
governments has been recognized
1.-The conclusion also has beer
reached that 1t is necessary to exchange
data on ornaments so that the fortn-
coming Disarmament Conference VIII
produce effective results in the inter-
ests Of peace and the economic and
moral life of the world"
Later Premier MusSolini received rep
resentatives of the German press and,
addressing them in German expressed
his delight at having met the chan
cellor and DR.. Curtius.
"I can see," he said, that they are
both animated by will to cure their
country of the ills from which it still
suffers and to instill in their people a
confidence in the future.
Has Faith in Germany.
The premier reiterated a sentiment
which has been expressed before that
Germany must rely upon her own re-
sources to pull herself out of her eco
nomic trouble.
"All peoples have passed through
times just as hard as these" he said,
and the present is not initself so bad.
II appears TO be so because remedies call
for certain phenomena of a vital nature
which are determined chiefly by moral
factors and by increasing interdepend-
ence of the worlds financial currents. .
He emphasized his confidence in
Germany's ability to help herself and
told the correspondents he had assured
the German statesmen that ITALY will
continue to contribute cooperation
with all her strength
Two Problems Taken Up.
At this mornings conference the
statesmen discussed two problems raised
by the Hoover moratorium. Premier
Mussolini said the recent German finan-
cial restrictions had subjected Italian
exporters of citrus fruits TO losses, and
1t was agreed the Italian government
would extend credit to the exporters
and Germany would shortly remove the
restrictions in question.
The other problem was that of coal
Italy receives about 100000 tons Of
coal a year as reparations in kind and,
by the terms of agreement, is required
to continue buying the coal during a
regular moratorium under the Young
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