The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-21

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 lively bombed Greek naval bases, hitting port works and anchored steamships.
 The communique reported normal activity of patrols and artillery on the Albanian front and increased artillery activity at Tobruk.
 A meeting of the national dlrec- torate of the Fascist party was sum- moued for 5 D. m. Q0 a. m. EST) and German and Italian economic experts held the first of a series of trade conferences as the high con- mand admitted the loss of KaSSala.
 The newspaper hailed the Musso- lini- Hitler conference as having been held under the sign of vic- tory
 Impede American Aid
 They ntimated that close Italian German cooperation would be the result and diplomatic quarters Sug- geSted that the NaZi and Fascist leaders might have agreed on in- tenSification of the counter-block- aGe to impede American aid to Britain, increased German aid to Italy in the Mediterranean and a great Axis offensive against Britain in the spring. It was suggested also that on the displomatic side the Axis partners might have discussed a generally stiffened attitude to- WarG the United States, and the fu- ture of Axis relations with France.
 Newspaper dispatches and editor ials on the MuSsolini-Hitler meeting wer3 uninformative. and official quarters remained silent on details.
 Popolo Di Roma said in dis patch from Berlin:
 '1he meeting comes at all hour rendered particularly important and significant by the complete failure of the enemy's speculation on the separation of fronts, which they wrongly calculated to bring about through concentration of all their forces against Italy, which they be- 1ieved would have morally collapsed and consequently would have been eliminated from the conflict"
 The new meeting between the duce and the fuehrer in the pres ence of Ciano and Ribbenurop oc- cured against under the sign of victory" said MeSSagero editorially ''The magnificent action carried out by the air and naval forces of the two allied countries in their fight against the decadent British en- pire ill the Mediterranean and At- lantic form a triumphal background for the picture of the historic meet ing which undoubtedly is the pre- Jude to new and important devel- Cpments in common diplomatic and military action
 Meeting Important
 Rome, Jan. 21-UP)-The latest meeting between Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini was especially inn portant in view of the attitude of the United States towards the war, Virginia Gayda wrote today in the authoritative Giornale DItalia.
 This ninth meeting of Mussolini and Hitler occurred in a particularly significant phase of the war and its repercuSSions throughout the world" Gayda wrote.
 This phase is characterized by a strengthening of war mongering trends overseas, which do not lack in influence 'on the political and military war setup and interna- tional Axis accords."
 Well-informed circles said that the Mussolini- Hitler meeting oc- cured at Berchtesgaden and it was said that results of the conference soon would become apparent in both political and military fields. It was indicated also that henceforth tGussolini and Hitler would meet &Anre frequently.
 Gefore their foreign ministers S1aned them at Berchtesgaden, it vas said, Hitler and Mussolini con- ferred alone for several hours.
 "MuSsolini and Hitler reached a number of accords," Gayda said. Tt is useless to say what questions were examined and what new accords were reached regarding them. In time, concrete developments will show"
 Gayda said that the Mussolini- Hitler conferences "tend to harino- nize the political and war relations of the two Axis powers" at each phase of the war.