Show FRANCE ITALY SET PEACE TALK Laval Prepares to Leave for fo Conferences Co With Mussolini PARIS Jan 3 Pierre JP-Pierre Pierre Laval former premier who stepped in as foreign minister when Louis Bar Bar- thou was shot down at Marseille l will leave tonight for R Rome Borne me with a tentative tentative tenta- tenta tive draft of ot a Italian Franco agree agree- ment to keep central Europe Problems purely between France Franc and end Ital Italy are arc also expected to b be when Laval meets M Mussolini lini D Documents which the thc two are ex cx- peeled d to sign it is understood provide pro pro- vide ride first for an assurance of ot Austria's Austria's Aus Aus- tr tria's s 's independence e and a plan t to guarantee the security of or central Eu Eu- rope A second object is the settlement o of Italian Franco colonial questions i in Africa S SAn An agreement in principle was reached in many long dist long distance telephone telephone tele tele- phone calls calLs' between Paris and Rome Rom by which Laval Lava was permitted d t to visit t Premier Mussolini before belore he be beat beat- 2 ai t- t tends a session of ot the council of the league of ot nati nations ns at Geneva January Janu Janu- cry ary ry 11 21 After Laval's return from Geneva be he intends to visit London perhaps with Premier Pierre Flandin for a 3 further discussion with Sir John Simon British foreign secretary of European problems |