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Show tion in face of passible war. i Th? forceful Duce, tired of what he called "The European diplomatic diplo-matic circuit" of statesmen's visits to each other, demanded that at their conference at Stresa April 11 the foreign ministers of the three allied countries unite for action. His demand was made in his newspaper Popolo D'ltalia, which he founded in 1914, when the World war broke out, to become the mouth piece that was to lead him to the heights of power. Swiss Protest Nazi Kidnaping Of Journalist BY t'NITKD PRESS Berne International crisis threatened as Switzerland protests to Germany against Nazi kidnaping of Berthold Jacob, journalist, from Swiss soil and demands his return. May appeal to league. Milan Mussolini calls for i uniLed stand of Britain, France 1 and Italy on European peace. j Warsaw Eastern European Be- curity pact, whether with Cor- ' many included or with a ring of allies against her, emerges as ' main issue in Anglo-Polish talks, j Berlin Germany counting on Poland to stand firm against east- I ern alliance. Paris France and Russia may initial the draft of a European security se-curity pact when foreign minister Laval visits Moscow. BERNE, April 2 (U.R1 A grave international incident was precipitated precipi-tated today over the alleged kidnaping kid-naping by Nazi agents of a German Ger-man emigre journalist. Foreign Minister Giuseppe Mot- ta 'angrily read to parliament a , note to Germany whi.n demanded ; immidiate return to Swiss soil of , Eorthold Jacob, German refugee ! journalist, who disappeared from ! Basle and was found in a Nazi j prison awaiting trial for high ; treason. In addition the note demanded ! severe punishment of German of-i of-i ficials guilty of the kidnaping. j "This kidnaping is a serious j ; violation of Swiss sovereignty," Motta said. "It is capable of completely shaking Switzerland's j destiny." MILAN, April 2 H'.V.) Premier Benito Mussolini today demanded that France, Great Britain and Italy adopt a united course of ac- |