Last week a small olive branch sprouted in the bramble of French-Italian difficulties. In a week when Benito Mussolini was expected to press Adolf Hitler for some cooperation on the short end of the axis there came at least four gestures of moderation.
Early in the week a Frenchman named Hubert Lagardelle, who lives in Rome and hobnobs with Signor Mussolini, went to Paris supposedly charged with a secret mission. Before long everyone knew the secret. He called on a Daladier lieutenant, Public Works Minister Anatole de Monzie, and suggested that he tell his boss the time was ripe for Paris to...
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