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Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 35, 11 February 1935, Page 7

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AIR PACT PROPOSAL.

Germany Said to be Favourably Inclined. FRANCO-BRITISH SENTIMENT. (United P.A.-Electric Telegraph—Copyright) (Received 1 p.m.) LONDON, February 10. v The "Sunday Observer" says th%t Sir John Simon is likely to go to Berlin in connection with the proposed aerial convention owing to Sir E. Phipps reporting its favourable reception there. According to a British official wireless message '-The Times" says that Sir John Simon's reference to the conversations between Britain and France in ■ his speech at the British Chamber of Commerce luncheon in Paris, was delivered with emphasis and was intended to convey an assurance' to the German Government that preliminary consultations between the French and British Governments did not in any sense imply reluctance for simultaneous and equal discussion of the questions involved with all the Powers concerned as soon as this became possible. In a speech made later M. Flandin said that the French and British Governments had achieved a complete unity of purpose. They had made a solemn appeal to human desire for peace. Their first aim was to prevent ruin and murder. Those who fought in the war believed in a better future for humanity. In flying across the Channel one saw that France and Britain had the same sky—a sky which they would not allow to become the conveyer of death. Sir John Simou flew back to England yesterday afternoon. He has had no political conversations with M. Flandin or with M. Laval who, indeed, is in bed with a bad attack of influenza.