TIME FOR QUIET STUDY

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 28, 3 February 1930, Page 9

TIME FOR QUIET STUDY

COMPLICATED PROBLEMS

MACDONALD'S OPTIMISM

British Official Wireless. ■ ..(Received 3rd February, 11 a.m.). RUGBY, 2nd February. There was no committee- work during the week-end by Naval Conference delegates. M. Tardieu paid a short visit to Paris, where M: Briand preceded .'him yesterday. Signor Graiidi and Mr. Wakatsuki wont to the seaside, a- Mr> Mac Donald to his official country residence of Chequers, where he entertained the Amricau delegates to 'uncheon.

Though there 'was no official work, dlegates took leisure ■to study pappers relating to tue proposal whereby the British category and French global theories -are correlated. On this complicated important problem there is. a hope of solution. Mr. MacDonald's optimistic statement that the partition dividing the French and British is "so' thin as. to bo almost transparent. is borne , out in French delegation circles. Britain is unlikely to accept the compromise proposal formally, however, until the views of the other delegations at Conference have been defined, and until the whole matter has been thrashed out in committee. The so-called First Committee has now been turned into a committee of all the delegates, and is in effect the conference sitting as a committee in private. The next such meeting -as ,at present arranged takes place on Tuesday. ;..■'.