ITALY / POLITICS: Britain and Italy sign Mediterranean Pact (1937)

BRITISH PARAMOUNT NEWSREEL (REUTERS) To license this film, visit Britian’s ambassador to Italy, Sir Eric Drummond and Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Count Galeazzo Ciano sign a Mediterranean Pact recognising the other’s rights in the Mediterranean. Full Description: ITALY: Rome: INT Sir Eric Drummond, 16th Earl of Perth (Britain’s ambassador to Italy) signing Anglo-Italian agreement (Mediterranean Pact) (agreement that Italy and Britain will recognise the other’s rights in the Mediterranean) (narrator voice-over “Britain and Italy have buried the hatchet“) SOT / Count Galeazzo Ciano (Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs) (brother-in-law of Benito Mussolini) signing pact / Drummond and Ciano handshake Background: Britian’s ambassador to Italy, Sir Eric Drummond and Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Count Galeazzo Ciano sign a Mediterranean Pact recognising the other’s rights