PREMIERS MEET.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18107, 24 June 1924, Page 7

PREMIERS MEET.

A FRANK TALK.

ANGLO-FRENCH RELATIONS

"WE HAVE BEGUN WELL."

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(Received June 23rd, 7.20 p.m.)

LONDON, June 22. Tho Herriot-MncDonald conference resulted in a distinct advance in AngloFrench relations.

It is understood that tjie Premiers' talk was very frank, as both desired a personal understanding. This was obtained without either conceding any vital point.

(AUSTRALIAN AITD H.Z. CABL* ASSOCIATION.)

(Received June 23rd, 9.25 p.m.)

LONDON, June 23. As M. Herriot was leaving Chequers, Mr Mac Donald, cordially shaking his hand, said, "Our work is only beginning." M. Herriot replied, "But .we have begun well." Newspapers comment with satisfac-

tion on the evident good feeling engendered by the conference, and express the happiest hopes for the consequences of the meeting. (■

PACT OF CO-OPERATION.

SEMI-OFFICIAL REPORT,

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(Received June 24th, 12.5 a.m.)

PARIS, June 23,

A semi-official statement regarding the MacDonald-Herriot interview, says: "Yv'e agreed to conclude a pact of continued co-operation." The twd Premiers did everything possible to create an atmosphere of sympathy and confidence.

Mr Mac Donald repeated his assurance that, in caso of German defaults, Germany would find herself face to face with Britain, France, and Belgium united inflexibly as in war time. Mr Mac Donald's undertaking tTiat he will help to facilitate the military evacuation of the Ruhr assumes that the United. States will be invited to participate in the next London Conference. -

ALLIED CONFERENCE.

MEETING NEXT MONTH.

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LONDON, June '22,

The conference of Mr Mac Donald and M. - Herriot revealed a general agreement of Franco-British viewpoints. It was decided to ask Italy and Belgium to attend an Allied Conference in London in July for the purpose of determining the procedure in connexion with the Dawes report.

Mr Mac Donald and M. Herriot agreed jointly to attend the opening, of the Assembly of the League of Nations at Geneva in September.

UNITY OF THE REICH:

GERMANY WILL PRESS FRANCE.

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LONDON, June 22.

The Berlin- correspondent of "The ( Times" says that Germany undoubtedly intends to pin M. Herriot, French Prime Minister, to the promise that military evacuation of the Kuhr will commence as soon as the reparation experts' report is actually put into operation.

Speaking at Dessau, Anhalt, Dr. Stresemann, Foreign Minister, said he welcomed M. Herriot's declaration, which would mean the restoration of the status quo if simultaneously other areas occupied in contravention of the Versailles Treaty were also evacuated.

If to this were added the restoration of the economic and financial sovereignty of Germany, the door between the occupied and unoccupied Germany would be opened once more, and the unity of the Beich, for which Germany had : been struggling ever since the conclusion of the Peace Treaty, would be preserve. Germany in return would give a fair performance of the conditions attached to the experts' reports. '' Is France,'' asked Dr. Stresemann, "willing to live side by side with Germany as a peaceful neighbour?" Everybody in Germany would welcome this as a necessary preliminary to the peaceful development of Europe.