Many Gaps Remaining to Be
Filled—Recent Talks
Starting Point.
PARIS, September 30 (N.A.N.A.),—
Impressions of the most competent
observers on the spot as to the Hitler
Mussolini meeting cannot as yet be
regarded as final. Their impressions
will become more definite when the
German foreign minister, Baron Con
stantin von Neurath, begins to en
lighten the foreign ambassadors and
, especially the British envoy, Neville
Henderson, who is now particularly
favored by the German government.
It is agreed by mast that the meet
ing must be regarded as a starting
point only, and that several important
gaps are still to be found in the pro
gram of Italo-German action. These
gaps are not likely to be filled until
Berlin and Rome have had an oppor
tunity to test Franco-British soli
► clarity regarding Central Europe and
the Mediterranean.
However, unless Britain should re
solve to give Germany a free hand in
Austria and Czechoslovakia—an un
likely contingency—the probabilities
ere that the Italo-German bloc will
gradually consolidate and, as a con
sequence, the French-British anti
bloc will assert itself. The process,
however, will be a lengthy one, since
neither Berlin nor London wishes such
a development to occur because it
would preclude chances of an Anglo
German settlement.
Dure Moving Force.
The moving force within the Italo
German association is assuredly Mus
solini, who insists upon an equal ilis
• tribution of profits and does not lelish
the prospect of Germany going ahead
In Central Europe, while Italy is
forced to mark time in the Mediter
ranean and be left there to face
British naval and air rearmament
next year.
Meanwhile, the following points can
be recorded: First, in a general way.
Germany and Italy remain true to the
so-called system of the four-powers'
pact, whereby Western Europe would
practically abandon Central and East
trn Europe to their fate.
Second. j^ll ignored is the question
Whether Hitler has succeeded in ob
taining Mussolini's adhesion to a
more drastic enforcement of the
Austro-German treaty of July, 1936,
which would imply the admission of
Austrian Nazis into the Austrian cab
inet and even perhaps the ordering of
a plebiscite. It is surmised that Mus
solini endeavored to have such an ad
vance of the German cause postponed
Rt any rate until Germany's full mili
» tary support in the Mediterranean has
been promised him.
Third, regarding Spain things are
seen in a clearer light. Mussolini told
Hitler that he would not concede to
France and England the withdrawal
of so-called volunteers fighting in
Spain and tried to obtain Germany's
military assistance in pase Fiance and
England should bring the issue to a
head. However. Hitler is believed to
have explained to him that the ques
tion of military assistance was not of
ftctual interest, because Great Britain,
soothed by Italian concessions (ad
hesion to the Nyon Convention and a
promise to send no more troops to
Spain), could not be easily persuaded
by France to take her side in a long
sustained, energetic attitude in rela
tion to the recall of volunteers.
Warlike Risks Now Opposed.
It is known that Hitler's most mod
erate advisers consider the present
circumstances unfavorable to an as
sumption of warlike risks by Germany.
Particularly, they are not far from
considering Japan's campaign against
China calamitous from the German
viewpoint as bound to detract Japan
j from bringing pressure to bear upon
Soviet Russia, a pressure which Ger
man military authorities have always
deemed important. These authorities
express the opinion that Japan at
tacked at the wrong time and in the
' wrong direction.
Fourth, when Hitler visits Rome,
perhaps in November, the question of
an Italo-German alliance will be ex
amined again and more thoroughly ac
cording to the circumstances then in
existence.
Such are the indications that can
now be given without plunging into
too far-fetched speculation.
(Copyrieht. 19,37. by the North American
Newspaper Alliance. Inc.)
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Killed by Spain, China Havoc
By the Associated Press.
LONDON, September 30.—The long
range destructive power of modern
aircraft has caused British insurance
companies to cease issuing war-risk
Insurance.
Citing the havoc wrought by bomb
ing planes in Spain and China, nearly
300 British companies yesterday is
sued a statement declaring the de
velopments of aerial warfare have
Introduced an incalculable hazard in
euch insurance.
They warned that the wars in
Spain and China "suggest what would
happen were a powerful enemy to
attack the capital of any one of the
more important European countries
where property of immense value is
gathered in comparatively small
areas, like the city and docks of
London.”
The statement added that there is
no means of estimating the economic
rate of premium on war-risk insur
ance in the face of such a potential
menace.
“The Great War can be no guide,
owing to the vast strips made in
the perfection of offensive weapons
since the armistice,” it declared,
“The wide radius of action of mod
ern aircraft had made the area of
of destruction almost illimitable. In
cendiary bombs have increased enor
mously the potential damage to prop
erty.”
New policies and those renewable
after today will carry a clause stat
ing that no liability is attachable to
fhe company it, the event of war
(declared or not) civil war or re
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The statement added that insurance
companies throughout the world were
falling in line with this policy.
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HENDAYE, Franco-Spanish Fron
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