Evening star., 1937-09-24
|DUCE AND HITLER
PLAN JOINT APPEAL
FOR WORLD PEACE
Mussolini's Speech Held De-
signed to Form Basis for
Lasting Accord.
NEW L0CARNO INCLUDING
BRITAIN, FRANCE SEEN
Spanish War Held a Likely Snag.
Hitler Ready in Munich to
Greet Italian Guest.
BACKGROUND

oAC AChGHOOND-
On the etc OF Premier Musso-
Inns meeting pith Adolph Hitler,
the consensus of Rome diplomatic
circles ,ods that Italy has logically
improved her relations with Britain
ana France, but that anything like
triple alliance iUds unHkelu. Mus
Solint, diplomats declared. has re-
peatedly said cooperation with
Great Britain and France ,Uould
not impair the Rome Berlin aris.
By the Associated Press.
MUNICH, Germany, September "a
informed sources disclosed today tha
Premier Mussolini and Chancellor
Hitler have agreed to make a Joint
world appeal for peace when they
speak Tuesday at the close of huge
demonstration in Berlin.
Mussolini, en- route to Munich toda,
by special train for what is regarded
in diplomatic circles as a highly-im-
portant meeting with Germany
Fuehrer, was said to have already COM
pleted his speech on the subject.
Italians in position to know said
II Duce's speech and Hitler's would
constitute mutual message for peace
which might form the basis for lasting
understanding in Europe.
Pact With Britain. France.
They said II Duce first wrote hi.
speech in Italian; then rewrote it him.
self in German. He speaks German
fluently, having learned it while a
bricklayer in the German section o.
Switzerland and, later. while in the
Austrian Jail at Trento, in the year:
before his rise to supreme power il
Italy.
The speech, as 1t stands, probably
will be made in German, although
Mussolini may yet change back tC
Italian, these informants said A Naz
official in Rome went over it to smooth
out grammatical stiffness.
Hitler, who already has arrived in
Munich to greet Mussolini at the rail-
road station tomorrow morning. anc
the Italian leader were represented a.
having in mind the attainment o.
peace through some arrangement with
Great Britain and France. according
to information available in diplomatic
circles here.
However, their plans do not in
clude the participation of Soviet Rus
sia.
A Second LOcarno.
The arrangement might be based
on another Locarno accord, both Hit
tier and Mussolini repeatedly being
willing to enter into such program
(The Locarno pact banded to-
gether Britain, France. Italy, Ger
many and Belgium to guarantee
peace between Germany and
France, under terms of the Ver-
sailles Treaty. 1t became obsolete
when Hitler remilitarized the
Rhineland. the unarmed buffer
state created between the two old
enemies by the treaty.
It was said that the new lineup OF
Locarno accord members would have
to be the same as that of the old Lo-
carno. pact. The only changes te
which they would agree being the
omission of Belgium. which country
has declared its neutral status, and
the omission of the Rhineland clause
which is out of date now.
This version was taken to mean
Mussolini and Hitler intend to reject
the British idea of northern Lo-
carno embracing Britain, France and
Germany, and southern Locarno
embracing France, Germany and
Italy.
Political observers believed, however
that any real peace understandings
with Britain and France will be diff
cult to arrive at so long as the Span
ish civil war, danger point of the
whole European situation, continues