POINCARE AND BERLIN

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 89, 12 October 1923, Page 7

POINCARE AND BERLIN

REFUSAL OF DISCUSSION

NOT HAPPILY INSPIRED.

(UNITED PBESB ASSOCIATION.— COPTHUIHT,)

(AUSTRALIAN - NEW ZEALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION.)

LONDON, 11th October.

The "Daily Telegraph's" diplomatic correspondent says: "Our Allies may well ask themselves whether in any deal with Herr Stinnes they are likely to get the better of the bargain. M. Poincare may eventually discover that in refusing now to negotiate with the German Government, although the latter has withdrawn its ordinances, and m preferring to negotiate with private and 16cal interests, he was not altogether happily inspired. The validity of agreements under such conditions, without tha consent of one cf the Governments concerned, may conceivably be challenged at a later date, it will be interesting to learn the view taken by the Reparations Commission It .would be difficult to say whether the French attitude has been dictated by the fear that the Franco-German negotiations could not be conducted without British participation. On the other hand, it i B a fact that Belgian opinion is not enamoured of separate negotiations with private interests. It would not surprise me to learn that a .Belgian demarche is imminent, and will possibly take the form of a request that the Reparations Commission should deal without delay with the recent proposals of the Belgian technical experts, which the. British and French Governments have hitherto ignored."