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...find out just where Austria stood in the new picture (TIME, May 3). Mussolini's son-in-law and Foreign Minister, Count Galeazzo Ciano, has been to Berlin for a courtesy call. Last week it was the turn of Hitler's Foreign Minister, Baron Constantin von Neurath, to go to Rome. Count Ciano welcomed his portly confrere who rode around town and laid wreaths on appropriate tombs, ended up with a champagne-popping at Villa Madama, Rome's lush residence for distinguished guests...
After the champagne came the meeting's muttons. Dictator Mussolini, Son-in- Law Ciano and Baron von Neurath discussed Spain. They agreed that Italian and German troops were failing to pull the Spanish chestnut out of the Radical fire, that Germany and Italy must get out before they themselves are burned. Baron von Neurath, representing the Junker (landed gentry) caste in Germany which has opposed Hitler's determination to go through with the Spanish adventure, was all for an early withdrawal. Mussolini disagreed, suggested that Italy and Germany should make no change until they see the outcome...
...question of Austria, Mussolini repeated what he had told Chancellor Schuschnigg in Venice, that Italy would not fight Germany to preserve Austrian independence. Baron von Neurath in return gave his assurance that Germany would make no move to annex Austria by arms, would be content "with economic penetration of the Danube basin...
...Persian Gulf. Then Italy was a wavering German satellite. Now she is the virtual Boss of central Europe and pan-Germany must wait upon Italy's permission even to penetrate the Danube basin economically. To sell their new solidarity to Britain and France, Mussolini and von Neurath were believed by newshawks last week to have discussed a new security pact for Western Europe, which Britain and France would be asked to join, guaranteeing the safety of the Rhineland. As the discussions continued, the German Foreign Minister emphasized that Germany had no intention of returning to the League of Nations...
...large, the two collaborators were well pleased with their head-to-head. Just before Baron von Neurath entrained for home a glowing communique was issued "reaffirming the two Governments' determination to continue to follow a common policy in all major questions." Thus was the ground finally prepared for what, if it comes off next month, will be the axis-forging climax: a meeting between Hitler and Mussolini at Berlin...