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Italians Cool Towards Hitler

LONDON-Fuehrer Adolf Hitler was understood tonight to have made his Reichstag peace proposals against strong Italian advice.

Usually well informed embassies heard that when Count Galeazzo Ciano, Italian Foreign Minister, arrived in Berlin Sunday he conveyed a conciliatory peace plan which Premier Benito Mussolini had evolved. It provided for recreation of an independent Poland of restricted size to be guaranteed by all the great European powers instead of by Germany and the Soviet Union alone.

Mussolini also was reported to have suggested that all other questions, ranging from colonies and disarmament to an economic new deal, should be dealt with in a five-power conference by Germany, Russia, France, Britain and Italy.

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