LEAGUE COUNCIL

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 72, 18 December 1928, Page 11

LEAGUE COUNCIL

WORK AT LUGANO JOINT STATEMENT ISSUED (British OHlciai Wireless.) Rugby, December 16. A joint statement from Sir Austen Chamberlain, M. Briand, and Dr. Stresemann was issued at Lugano yesterday as follows: “The session of the Council of the League of Nations has enabled us to resume personally the meetings which have been interrupted for some time, and to proceed to a very useful exchange of views. These conversations have had the effect of confirming our view that the policy of conciliation and rapprochement followed by our respective Governments is the best policy to assure peace. Wp remain faithfully attached to that policy. In this spirit we will continue the negotiations begun in virtue of the agreement arrived at in Geneva on September 16 by the six interested Powers. We are determined to do everything in our power to arrive as soon as possible at a final settlement of the difficulties arising’ out of the war? and thus assure upon a basis of mutual confidence a happy development of the relations between our respective countries.” “RESULTS EXTREMELY POOR” OPINION OF GERMAN PRESS Berlin, December 16. The Nationalist newspapers regard the results of the Lugano meeting as extremely poor. They consider that it has clearly proved that the unbridged gulf continues. The “Kreuz Zeitung” says that not the slightest progress has been made on reparations, security, and disarmament. Promises of a future solution are worthless. The “Deutsche Zeitung” considers that Dr. Stresemann is politically dead, having sacrificed Germany to a policy of bottomless illusions.