A conference between Britain, France, and Italy. Held at Stresa on Lake Maggiore in Italy, it proposed measures to counter Hitler’s open rearmament of Germany in defiance of the Versailles Peace Settlement. Together these countries formed the “Stresa Front” against German aggression, but their decisions were never implemented. In June Britain negotiated unilaterally a naval agreement with Germany. In November 1936 Mussolini proclaimed his alliance with Hitler in the Rome-Berlin Axis.