FRANCO-ITALIAN RELATIONS.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 19928, 15 May 1930, Page 11

FRANCO-ITALIAN RELATIONS.

HOPES FOR AGREEMENT. (•antra orncui- i»i»«t*6S.) IiUGBY, May 13. KopM are entertained hero that •orate conversations proceeding at geneva will contribute to the completion of an agreement on the outstandiu difficulties in Franco-Italian rfllatwas. Tho light programme at the tonsil meeting gives favourable wportunltiai for formal talks between Ministers, and naturally questions itnins out of the discussions at the EsoJon Naval Conference are among |mm under reference. k^u,„ ISe Foreign Secretary, Mr Arthur KtAdcrson, who had cpMersations Sth M. Aristide Briand in Paris on & w*v to Geneva yesterday, lunched 4h Signer Grandi, who \t°-f ay baching with the French Foreign Sinister. t _ fl» conversations with Press correMidents last night Mr Henderson gUT that he would be 4«Ugh*ed if he 3* contribute to the mutual under3Bbg between France and Italy, 3«tprcssod himself in profound itfenettt with Signor Grandi's re■pTitatemcnt that disarmament, Ski'was a matter of years, not |K could only be settled through SSgue. Ho praised the results of > SRI Conference, and spoke of the 2bl between its work and the OB the Preparatory Commission 9Crai»ment. He thought that Smh hare been unwise to nolo it WEm *he Preparatory/(JwnmisSfirirw ;be summer, and said that 'HHmlthat it had been postponed fEMMnber. Suoh delay would give Mat fresh efforts to solve the diffffil?«tf navftl requirements and so 'fli'implify the work of the Com* J||tt : CAUSES BESBNTMENT. 'Bttived May 14th, 9.35 p.m.) 'MB ' PAEIS, May 14. ■ -fl|pP«'«t<)rm of resentment In the ' tSyieh emphasised its impropriety - :■ the Geneva conversations.