NEW MOVE TO SETTLE PEACE OF EUROPE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 174, 24 July 1936, Page 7

NEW MOVE TO SETTLE PEACE OF EUROPE.

THREE-POWER TALKS.

Germany and Italy Invited

To Collaborate.

RESULT OF CONFERENCE, British Official Wireless. (Received 1.30 p.m.) RUGBY, July 23. At the end of to-day's three-Power meeting in London the following communique was issued: —"Representatives of France, Belgium and the United Kingdom, mindful of the arrangement of March 19 of proposals of the German Chancellor and those of the French Government, arrived at the following conclusions :

"(1) The main purpose to which the efforts of all European nations must be directed is to consolidate peace by means of a general settlement.

"(2) Such settlement can only be achieved by frie co-operation of all Powers concerned and nothing will be more fatal to the hopes of such settlement than the division, apparent or real, of Europe into opposing blocs.

"(3) The three Governments accordingly consider that steps should be taken to arrange a meeting of the five Locarno Powers as soon as such meeting can conveniently be held. The first business to be undertaken should, in tlieir opinion, be to negotiate a new agreement to take the place of the Rhine Pact of Locarno and to resolve, through collaboration of all concerned, the situation created by German initiative of March 7.

"(4) The three Governments accordingly propose to enter into communication with the German and Italian Governments with a view to obtaining their participation in the meeting thus proposed.

"(5) If progress can be made at this meeting, other matters affecting Euro-

pean peace will necessarily come under discussion. In such circumstances it will be natural to look forward to a widening of the area of discussion in such manner as to facilitate, with the collaboration of other interested Powers, a settlement of those problems the solution of which is essential to the peace of Europe."

Sincere Collaboration. In British circles the warmest tributes paid to the spirit of sincere collaboration in which the French and Belgian Ministers met their British colleagues $nd joined wholeheartedly in a new attempt to reach, with the free collaboration of all, an enduring European settlement.

Before the delegates dispersed arrangements were made for communication, by their diplomatic representatives, to the German and Italian Governments of their conclusions, together with an expression of hope that those Governments would accept the invitation to a fivePower meeting.

10, DOWNING STREET. ARRIVAL OF DELEGATES. (Received 0.30 a.m.) LONDON, July 23. Despite rain and winter-like cold, a fair crowd assembled in Downing Street to watch the Locarno delegates arrive at No. 10. All were present at the opening meeting except M. Blum (France), who will arrive this afternoon. The conference is expected to devote some attention to Germany's colonial claims.