LAUSANNE PROBLEMS

Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 221, 14 June 1932, Page 9

LAUSANNE PROBLEMS

British and French Views DISCUSSIONS IN PARIS Clarifying the Situation JUST SOLUTION FORESEEN (By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright) (Rec. June 13, 7 p.m.) Paris, June 12. The French Premier, 51. Hen-lot, the British Prime Alinistcr, Sir. Ramsay AlacDonald, and hi s Foreign Secretary, Sir John Simon, spent many hours in infonnal discussions during the week-end and it is believed have done much to clarify the situation regarding the Lausanne Conference. A communique which has been issued states that the talks have “shown a community of views permitting us to foresee a just and efficacious solution of the problems to be studied at Lausanne.” It is understood that one of the first problems will be the .prolongation of the present reparations moratorium until after the American Presidential election, and the second an armaments holiday for a period of one year, to be accompanied by a percentage reduction by all countries in their defence budgets. PRELIMINARY TALKS “Very Little Difference” Official Wireless. Rugby, June 11. The Prime Minister, Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, accompanied by the Foreign Secretary, Sir John Simon, left London this morning for Paris. They will be tile guests of the French Prime Minister, M. Herriot, at a dinner this evening when discussions which will be continued to-morrow on questions awaitlag consideration at the conference in Lausanne and Geneva, will be opened. The consultation with the French Government follows a further exchange of views between the British Prime Minister and new Foreign Minister of Germany. The conversations must in the nature of things be purely preliminary. “The Times” says: “For reasons which, if disappointing; are conclusive the Government of the United States is taking no part in the Lausanne Conference and the immediate business of the British and French Governments at the Paris meeting to-morrow is to discover, as between themselves, what measure of legal cancellation is possible.”

Special points to be raised by 51. Herriot in the Anglo-French conversations were discussed at yesterday’s meeting of the French Cabinet- Later, according to the Paris correspondent of the “News-Chronicle,” M. Herriot said that as the British and French viewpoints stand at present there is but very little difference between them. During their Paris visit the British Ministers will stay at the British Embassy. The time of their departure for Switzerland has not yet been definitely fixed, but it is anticipated that they will leave early next week, visiting Geneva on the way to Lausanne, where the Reparations Conference will open on Thursday. The other British delegates for Lausanne, Sir Herbert Samuel, Mr. Neville Chamberlain, and Mr, Walter Runciman, are to leave London on Tuesday. EXTENSION OF SCOPE Unexpected Result in Italy Rome, June 11. Mr. MacDonald's success in securing an extension of the scope of the Lausanne Conference has resulted in an unexpected decision by the Foreign Minister, Signor Grand!, to lead the Italian delegation.