Evening star., 1937-09-28
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BERLIN, September 2S.-Reichs-
fuehrer Adolf Hitler and Premier
Benito Mussolini have made friend
ship with England the corner stone of
their European policy. political circles
Of both declared today.
The two Fascist leaders met at a
private luncheon at the Summer
home Of Col. Gen. Hermann Goering,
just outside Berlin, for an across-the-
table talk before their worldwide
broadcast-an appeal for peaceful COL
laboration with other nations-from
Mayfleld Olympic Stadium.
Goering. Hitler's chief aide. Joined
occasionally in the conversation.
The Fascist chiefs agreed, well-in-
formed Spokesmen said, to what might
be termed a four-power pact by
stages-to include England now and
later France.
The first stage is development of
friendship between Rome and London.
Premier Mussolini agreed to further
Forthcoming conversations with Britain
and seek a definite accord which
would strAighten out their two-year-
old difficulties in the Mediterranean
difnculties begun with sanctions
against Italy during the Ethiopian
campaign.
Hitler TO Seek Amity.
At about the same time, Hitler is
to seek also to better relations with
London. The psychology to be pur-
sued Is two-fold:
l. To impress Premier Neville Cham
berlain's government with the SOL
idarity Of the Italo-German lineup
and its combined military strength.
2. To convince London this strength
is not to be used against Britain, but
that in conjunction with her it would
serve to keep peace in Europe.
This is to be the first stage. The
second isn't to come until the first Is
definitely concluded, and London Is
lined up with Berlin and Rome, not
in a three-power pact but through
Berlin-London friendship and Rome
London friendship.
The second stage Is to convince
France it is to her interest to come
into the London Berlin Rome align
ment. Hitler and Mussolini appear
to count on British influence ovel
France to bring this about.
This, then, would make the four
power pact. An important featur,
Of the plan, however, is that France
would be asked to give up her de-
fensive alliance with Russia before
she could enter into the ARRANGEMENT
Appeal for Peaceful Collaboration.
Official circles pictured the addresse.
by the two rulers this afternoon as ar
appeal for peaceful collaboration with
all nations of good will"
Nearly million residents of Ber.
lin thronged early toward Mayfield
Olympic Stadium to see and hear
Hitler and Mussolini in their world
wide broadcast.
There was strong indication tha
qualifying. strings" were attached t.
the side-by-side appeal prepared by
the two heads of state. The limitation
of Collaboration with "all other peoples
OF good will was sponsored by Mus.
solini in an exchange of toasts las
night at a state banquet in his honor
That in itself would cover consider
able misunderstanding Soviet Russis
and Republican Spain, for example
Previous Italo-German manifestation
have made clear that the Fascist gov
ernments do not regard these two q.
peoples of good will"
| Hint of Greater Limitation.
But there was hint of even create
limitation of the axial amity between
Rome and Berlin-this. too, apparent
ly inspired by II Duce The edito
in chief of Mussolini's Milan news
paper II Popolo dItalia in an articl
from Berlin, said Hitler and his CUES
would raise their voices for part
of right"
The dispatch. from Giorgio Pin
asserted that peace was the only objec
tive Of Mussolinis visit to Germany
But peace is only founded on jus
tice and parity of rights" PM wrote
Let none insist on sordid fictions to-
long endured"