TALKS IN PARIS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 139, 14 June 1932, Page 7

TALKS IN PARIS.

BRITISH AND FRENCH. Aligning Views for Lausanne Conference. HOPEFUL COMMUNIQUE. (British Officinl Wireless.) (Received 11.30 a.m.) RUGBY, June 13. The Prime Minister, accompanied by Sir John Si men, left Paris this morning for Geneva after preliminary conversations during the wcek-o»id with M. lierriot, French Prime Minister, who was also a passenger in thp same train. To-morrow the heads of the delegations to the Geneva Disarmament Conference will be Sir John Simon's guests at luncheon. Dispatches from Paris state tint M. Herriot, Mr. MacDonahl and Sir John Simon spent many hours in informal discussions during the week-end. It is believed that these have done much to clarify the situation in regard to the Lausanne Conference, which is to open on Thursday. A Communique issued yesterday stated that the talks had shown "a community of views permitting us to foresee a just and cflicacious solution of the problems to bo studied at Lausanne." It is understood that one of the first problems will be the prolongation of the present reparations moratorium until after the American Presidential election. The second problem will be the proposal to have an armaments holiday for a period of one year to be accompanied by a percentage of reduction by all countries of their defence Budgets. "No More Tribute" German Slogan. A Berlin says that the German delegation, which is to be led by the Foreign Minister, Baron von Neurath, will start for Lausanne to-day with the knowledge that rarely have the German people been so united as on the reparations problem. "No more tribute" is the slogan of all the political parties. Any Government' daring to pledge itself to sign an agreement to pay tribute (as reparations are always called in Germany) will certainly be swept out of existence by popular anger. * The Chancellor, Herr von Papen, realises this well. He intends to make it absolutely clear that Germany cannot pay reparations any longer. Baron von Neurath carefully avoids using the phrase "will not psy,' which is what the German declaration actually will amount to.