Show I Italy Ponders Peace Move British Hear LONDON April 22 UP UP- UP News Chronicle dispatches ches from Lisbon and Ankara reported Wednesday Wednesday Wednesday Wed Wed- that secret pr preparations were being made in Rome to obtain obtain ob ob- ob- ob tam tain a separate peace for Italy The Ankara dispatch quoted neutral diplomatic reports that Italians had been depressed by Pierre Laval's return to power in Vichy fearing Germany would reject reject reject re re- re- re the Italian claims on France and that Italians believed they might be able to make a separate peace which would result in the return of the Italian prisoners of the British These elements jit lit was s id fd hoped action might be betaken betaken betaken taken during the summer months while Germany was busy in R Rus Rus- s- s sia 1 The Lisbon dispatch said that if the Germans did not fully oc u- u py Italy a separate peace would be the easiest thing which happen It quoted as autho authority ity a South American diplomat Ire jre- re recently arrived from Rome He was was fas quoted also that the Italian people still trusted in their army and hoped it would overthrow the fascist fas las cist eist regime British diplomatic quarters yawned when they heard the re re- re ports They look like the old smoke smokescreen smokescreen smokescreen screen which the axis always floats in the spring an informant said He added that Italy had shown no sign of cracking despite re reports reports reports re- re ports that the Italian people were war weary Germanys Germany's grip on Italy was still too strong he said to permit Italy to extricate itself Informants said they saw no prospect of an early peace with any member of the axis in view of Germanys Germany's present nt military se Z fity but butS theY theys teat tt next fall Germany might be be bein beina Jh Jha Tn a different rent position and that re real l peace overtures might then be in prospect |