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Show ITALY WILL HOT 1 ASK FOR PEACE ROME, Oct 4 IW-Italy 's present pres-ent "peace" policy m announced today by th official Stefan! Newt agency, which said no Initiative would be taken to convoke a peace conference. A communique laid: I "Several English newspapers have published dispatcher according accord-ing to which 11 due (Mussolini) is studying plans for a peace conference. con-ference. There was even given a list of the nations which wer to participate. This news Is without any foundation. foun-dation. "Under present circumstances Italy will not Uk any initiative of this sort" Usually informed Italian sources said that any peace proposals Adolf Hitler has to offer probably would be advanced In his relchstag speech this week rather than through Italian diplomatic channels. Diplomatic activity along th Rome-Berlin axis, these sources said, has been suspended pending th reichsfuehrar's address. Some fascist circle said there till was a possibility of th Italian government's serving as an inter medlary for a formal approach to th French and British, but they Jndicated Premier Mussolini would wait for reaction to Hitler's relchstag relchs-tag proposals before intervening. |