TALKS IN BERLIN

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 58, Issue 36, 22 November 1937, Page 5

TALKS IN BERLIN

FRANK, OPEN CHARACTER. WAY TO BETTER RELATIONSHIPS. DOOR, OPENED A LITTLE WIDER, iUnited Press Association—Copyright., (Received This Day, 11.5 a.m.) BERLIN, November 21. Viscount Halifax received representatives of the British Press at the Embassy. He said his talks with Herr Hitler, General Goering and Baron von Neurath had been very frank and very open in character, but absolutely informal and confidential. Nothing could be said about them. He hoped that the door had been opened a little wider to a better understanding of the relations between the two countries. He had been able to inform himself of the German viewpoint. No arrangements had been made for a continuation of the conversations. That did not rest with him. Asked to confirm the report that Baron von Neurath is going to London, Lord Halifax said what would happen would depend on further consultations between Berlin and London. MEETING STATESMEN. BRITISH VIEW OF COLONIES. - - i (Received This Day, 10.35 a.m.) LONDON, November 21. Lord Halifax plans to leave Berlin to-night. Yesterday he attended a luncheon party given by General Goering at his beautiful/ hunting lodge, 25 miles from Berlin, at which the British Ambassador was among those invited. Last night Lord Halifax attended a dinner at the British Embassy, when he met General von Blomberg, Dr. Schaeht, Dr. Frick, and Dr Franck. The newspaper “Beobachter” describes the English and French reports that Baron von Neurath is visiting London as pure speculation. It says: “There is no pressing necessity for such a journey, which we have reason to believe is not contemplated.” “The Observer’s” Berlin correspondent says that as far as can be ascertained there Lord Halifax was able, in his preliminary talks with Baron von Neurath, to put the British Cabinet’s standpoint as follows: Germany should refrain from putting her colonial claims direct to Britain, and instead place them before the League of Nations. The question would then be brought up for discussion by the Mandatory Powers.