Evening star., 1939-01-13

Prime MINISTER CHdm0eftdln OF
Great Britain 1Uent to Rome this
Ueek in neU effort to 1Uin ap-
pedSement for Europe. On Wdy
he and Foreign Secretary Wis
count Haitian Stopped of in
Paris for talks 1Uith Premier
Daladier and Foreign Minister
Bonnet Solidarity OF pieWpoint
on resistance to Italian demands
in Mediterranean resulted.
By the Associated Press.
ROME, jan 13-Adolf Hitler was
reliably reported today to have
stepped into Prime Minister Cham
berlain's appeasement visit to Rome
by urging Premier Mussolni to keep
the peace for one year before de-
manding fulfillment of Italy's ma
tural aspirations"
From informed German quarters
came the report that such a message
Eas delivered by the German Am
bassador, Hans-Georg Vikton Won
Mackensen. in the second of two
conferences he had yesterday with
the Italian foreign minister, Count
Galeazzo Ciano.
(Premier Mussolini was au-
thoritatively reported in Paris to
have refused to retreat one
inch from Fascist colonial de-
mands on France in his talks
with the British Prime Minister.
Dispatches to the French foreign
office said Mussolini fatty told
Mr.. Chamberlain and the Brit
ish foreign secretary, ViScount
Halifax, that he would press ac-
lively Italian territorial demands
on FranceD
Disclosure of the German Fuehr-
er's part in the Rome conversations
came as Mr.. Chamberlain turned
from his talks with II Duce to pay
his respects to Pope Piux XI and
as results of the talks were being
communicated to the United States
and French Ambassadors to Rome.
United States Envoy Informed.
Significantly Ambassadors William
Phillips and Andre Francois-Poncet
we're told of the Chamberlain Mus
solini talks of the past two days by
the British foreign secretary, Wis
count Halifax. in separate inter-
views this morning.
Won Mackensen. it was disclosed,
called on Count Ciano for the Sec
Xpnd time late yesterday after close
Of the formal talks of the two
premiers
Hitler's reported request was in
terpreted as indicating that the
Fuehrer was not yet ready to make
payment to Mussolini for his support
at the Munich conference which
partitioned Czecho-Slovakia and
marked a milestone in European
history.
Informed persons said, however,
that Hitler probably would support
Italy If her claims, principally
against French colonial holdings,
were not met within a year, and
would consider Italy justified in 60
ing to any lengths then to realize
them.
The Fuehrer had a full report of
the Chamberlain -Mussolini conver-
sations last night, informants said
He was believed to have advised II
Duce to give the democracies one
year after learning through Won
Mackensen of Count Ciano's report
that the British had taken a firm
attitude.
30-Minute Audience.
Mr.. Chamberlain saw Pope Pins in
a Commute private audience at the
stately Vatican.
Shifting with a cold, in top hat
and cutaway, the British prime min
lister and his foreign secretary, with
their private party, drove into the
Vatican courtyard in five papal
automobiles preceded by two police
motor cycles.
. The party stepped from their
cars, which bore papal and British
flags, to be received respectfully by
the Popes secret chamberlains in
gorgeous relocated uniforms.
These functionaries accompanied
the party, including Francis Darcy
Osborne, British Minister to the
holy see, to the second floor of the
papal palace, where Msgr. Mellor Di
Sant-Elia, grandmaster of cere-
monies, awaited them.
He took them to the Pope's private
audience chamber. which they en-
Sered just before noon. Mr.. Cham
berlain first talked with the pontiff
alone and then members of his
party were admitted to the chamber.
On the way the Premier got the
lustiest greeting of his vista series
of Hip! Hip! Hooray" cheers from
300 students for the priesthood from
English and Canadian colleges.
Mr.. Chamberlain, leaving the
papal chambers after a half-hour
audience. said his holiness appeared
''in fairly good health"
THE crowd outside the Vatican
(See ROME, Page A-5D