Hitler and Mussolini Hold
Another "Perfect” Meeting
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BERNE, Switzerland, May 1 — Hitler and Mussolini
whose meeting in the east frequently have signalled
the approach of momentous events met in a two days’
conference that ended yesterday at Salzburg, Austria,
it was officially announced in Berlin and Rome. Little
actual information was divulged concerning the meet
ing. In the usual stereotyped form the German com
munique said Axis dictators met “in a spirit of close
friendship and indissoluble brotherhood in arms.”
The Allied conjecture, however, centered at the
possibility of these points:
1— Last minute decision for grand German offensive
against Russia.
2— Reported smouldering revolt and war weariness
in Italy.
3— A possible .joint German and Italian “final offer”
of peace on Axis terms to the Allies.
Informed British quarters declared that the purpose
of the conference obviously was to keep Mussolini in
line. These British quarters said: “Hitler must keep
both ends of the Axis moving in the same direction.
To do this he must give Mussolini a pep talk occasional
ly. The familiar routine of these meetings was strict
ly adhered to again.
Accompanied By Stall's
Hitler and Mussolini were accompanied by their
respective foreign ministers and chief of staff. Joaquim
von Ribbentrop and Field Marshall Kietel accompan
ied Hitler while Foreign Minister Count Ciano, and
Chief of Stax General Count Ungo Canvallero made
the trip with Mussolini.
According to the German news agency, the meeting
was held in “a cordial relationship” which marks rp
latons between official Berlin and official Rome. The
familiar phrase that “complete agreement on all prob
lems resulted from the war conference” also was made
in the official releases of the meeting. Allied sources
pointed out that Mussolini hardly was in a position to
do anything but agree.
In line with past performances the German propag
anda agency now will turn their effort during the next
few days to reporting that world-making events will
follow this meeting. Allied sources pointed out that
whatever world-making events Hitler may be plan
ning already were formulated long before his meet
ing with Mussolini.
The official Japanese Domei news agency reported
that the Japanese military attache at the Berlin em
bassy, Lt. General Sakanishi, has left for Rome to1
confer with Premier Mussolini on matters of strategy. I
Japan was not represented at the conference of Musso:
lini and Hitler at Saltzburg this week.
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Mussolini's Mouthpiece
ROME. May 1— Italian Premier Mussolini’s edi
torial mouthpiece, Vrgino Gayda, virtually confirmed
last night an earlier Japanese report that Hitler and II
Duce were to meet for a discussion of the war and the
position of the Axis powers. Writing in the propagan
da sheet Giornale d’ltalia, Gayda wound up a bluster
ing article about the fate the Axis has in store for the
rest of the world.
These meetings are a standard routine in the Axis
propaganda campaign and have been held frequently
since the outbreak of the war. Persons in a position to
know say that the meetings have been one-sided, with
11 Duce listening to a more personalzed sermon and ha
rangue by Hitler himself.
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Renewed efforts of the Nazis to crack the front between Orel and Taganrog (1)
and to take over Crimea—where the Rus sians resisted bitterly at Sevastopol
were regarded as prelude to long-heralded Nazi drive on the oil-rich Caucasus.
Axis claimed Red army smash at Kharkav (21 was repulsed. Axis troops are
massed, also, on Thrace border (3), menacing Turkey, Cyprus and Egypt. Meet
ing in Iran would follow Nazi success and Jap push through India (4).
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Chungking reported sea-borne Japanese troops with a strong warship escort had
landed at Aykyab (1) (black arrow), chiu western Burma port, only 350 miles
from Calcutta. Akyab landing wouldthreaten rear of British-Chinese forces in
central Burma (broken line), now guarding Prome and holding a line north of
Toungoo (2.'
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G . 0 . P_Clarence B. Krlland,
new executive ami publicity di
rector of the Republican National
Committee, attends to his mail,
lie urges wartime continuance
of the two-party system.
V I S I T 0 R—Sir (iirja Shan
kar Bajpai, India's agent general
to the I'nited States, recently
paid his first - visit to F.D.R.—
a sign of the growing emphasis
on India's wartime status.
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