ITALY: Strategic Loan?

Since the formation of the Little Entente (YugoSlavia, CzechoSlovakia and Rumania) under French auspices, Italy has been suspicous of the new order in Central Europe. Efforts have been made by the Little Ententists to bring Greece, Poland and Italy into the charmed circle, but Italian suspicion of the Yugo-Slavs and Italian nervousness at the tendencies of French foreign policy has held Mussoliniland aloof.

Although it is denied that there is any political flavor to the transaction, last week, Mussolini and the Polish Minister to Italy, M. Zalewsi, assisted by Signor Toplitz, manager...

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