FOR LAUSANNE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 138, 13 June 1932, Page 7

FOR LAUSANNE.

British Delegates Visiting Paris. TALK WITH FRENCH PREMIER. (British Official Wireless.) (Received 12 noon.) RUGBY, June 12. The Prime Minister, Mr. Eamsay MacDonald, accompanied by the Foreign Minister, Sir John Simon, left London yesterday morning for Paris. They were the guests of the French Prime Minister, M. Edouard Herriot, at dinner in the evening, when the discussion, which is to bo continued to-morrow on the questions awaiting consideration at the conferences in Lausanne and Geneva, will be opened.

A consultation with the French Government will follow a further exchange of views between the British Prime Minister and the new Foreign Minister of Germany. These conversations must bo purely preliminary.

"The Times" eays: "For reasons which are as disappointing as they are conclusive, the Government of the United States is taking no part in the Lausanne Conference, and the immediate business of the British and French Governments at the Paris meeting tomorrow is to discover between themselves to what measure a legal cancellation of war debts is possible."

The special points to be raised by M, Herriot were discussed at yesterday's meeting of the French Cabinet. Later, according to the Paris correspondent of the "News Chronicle," M. Herriot said tliat ae the British and French viewpoints stand at present, there is very little difference between them.

: During their Paris visit the British Ministers will stay at the British Embassy. The time of their departure for Switzerland has not yet been definitely fixed, but it is anticipated that they will leave early next week. They are visiting Geneva on the way to Lausanne, where the Reparations Conference opens on Thursday.

Tho other British delegates for Lausanne, the Home Secretary, Sir Herbert Samuel, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Neville Chamberlain, and the President of the Board of Trade, Mr. Walter Runciman, are to leave London on Tuesday.

ROAD TO TEMPERANCE.

" REPEAL PROHIBITION."

(Received 0.30 a.m.) NEW YORK, June 12. Mr. Alfred Sloan, president of General Motors Corporation, one of the country's leading industrialists, has announced his conversion to the belief that the best road to temperance lies in the repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment. Mr. Sloan, who, with Mr. Henry Ford, ! was often cited as an outstanding bnsi- ! ness leader who felt that the country's industrial efficiency had been increased I by prohibition, to-day declared that the lawlessness which had developed as a result of prohibition "created a general condition far more damaging to the i present and future stability of the country than any possible benefits that J would otherwise have been enjoyed." j