DISAPPOINTMENT EXPRESSED.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20084, 13 November 1930, Page 11

DISAPPOINTMENT EXPRESSED.

gfpERIAL CONFERENCE

, DOMINION DELEGATES RESTIVE. TALK OF GROSS DECEPTION. . , IL n pass* ASSOCIATION BT elzctbic TELIC-BAVH—COPYHIGHT.) (Beeeived November 12th, 8.20 p.m.) LONDON, November 11. Tha Dominion delegates to the Im--grfal Conference are understood to bo disappointed that after nearly six of deliberation the British Govfjunent has not said a simple "Yea" ay" to either preferences or the quota system. He outlook is so gloomy that there j, u expectation that to-morrow Mr j, C. Bennett, Prime Minister of Canwill toko over the reins from his j-ety, «»d plainly tell the members , fftbe British Cabinet that the whole tkiM »»vours of gross deception. An Australian summing-up says that Uj Bamsay HacDonald, the British Minister, will probably announce existing preferences will be mainBiaed for two or three years. If this aaeession is gained, it will be the only -momie result of the Conference, beltr.« all the other ideas of Import g«trds, bulk purchases, and an Ecorrr;« Secretariat have been jettisoned. The terse comment of one of the frying Dominion representatives is «,rth quoting: "We have been allowed amuse ourselves for three weeks execonomic cul-de-sacs. It is Si very disappointing, and leaves a suty taste in the mouth." Foreign Policy Question.

Regarding the meeting "bf Mr Arthur Banderaon. Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and the Prime Ministers aa the subject of foreign policy, the that officials wcro not aware of t|t Beating provoked comment, parentally the absence of Sir Robert Vanjltypt, Permanent Under-Secretary to Foreign Office. This is very unTf—i when a British Secretary makes .in important statement. Ifany papers are asking whether the XieDonald Government is anxious to trotd general discussions of foreign «Bey with the Dominions, and recall Act Lord Grey, Lord Curzon, and Sir Jbnten Chamberlain at various Im■nial Conferences, made the Empire 'a (taiga policy one of the major and ttxfiest questions, and initiated the fellest and most frank discussion of ii

NOT REPRESENTED.

DOMINIONS AND INDIAN CONFERENCE. (Received November 12th, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, November 11. The Prime Ministers, Mr Patrick IfdSilligan (Trish Free State) and the Iteads of delegations to the Imperial Codoenn met privately at No, 10 Downing Street Hub morning to discuss the Empire's foreign policy. The Secretary of State, for Foreign Affaire. Mr Arthur Henderson, at the opening of the conference circulated a nemorandnm on foreign policy, accompnied by s suggestion that if any delegations wished further information b» wouUJ place it on the agenda. The spokesman of the conference dedims toat no requests came in; but the United Kingdom Government dencd such a discussion, beginning posiflty to-day. Asked if the Dominions, in view ot fttir direct interest on Indian ques- & would be represented by an Tat the Round-Table Confer•fo en India, the highest authority •eliod in the negative, explaining lot toe Pritish Government repreMtfed the Dominions. The discussion nrobahly be partlv private, and ttt ftiDy recorded. a record it would be available to the