FOREIGN INTEREST.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 232, 1 October 1929, Page 7

FOREIGN INTEREST.

Pleasing Effect Of Mac Donald's Farewell Message.

LABOUR SENTIMENTS.

(British Official Wireless.) (Received 12 noon.) RUGBY, September 30. The Prime Minister's journey to the United States as a sequel to the naval conversations with the American Ambassador, General DaAves, is being watched with exceptional interest, not only in this country but in other countries. From comments in the European Press it is evident that the Prime Minister's statement oa leaving England, ill which is emphasised, "the wider international understanding " to which it is now necessary to bring negotiations regarding naval disarmament, has had a reassuring effect. This is likely to be strengthened by reference to the subject in his message to the Labour Party Conference, in which he declared that any Anglo-American understanding could only be and was only intended to be the preliminary to a larger agreement which must be reached in conference with the other naval PoAvers and later on in a Preparatory Commission at Geneva. The annual Labour Party Conference at Brighton to-day sent the following wireless message to Mr. Mac Donald in the Berengaria: "All your friends at the annual conference reciprocate your greetings and assure you of our continued confidence in your leadership so strikingly justified by our recent victories. We Avish you and Ishbel a happy and a pleasant time and desire you to convey to the American President and nation the representations of our gratification at the Avhole-hearted manner jn which they are seeking to co-operate in the great task of promoting international arrangements and so securing a, peaceful and peace-loving world."