HENDERSON RETURNS

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 17, 20 July 1931, Page 9

HENDERSON RETURNS

STILL OPTIMISTIC

FRENCH COMMUNIQUE

(British Official Wireless.) (Received 20th July, 11 a.m.) BUGBY, 19 th July. Lato to-niglit the Foreign; Secretary, Mr. Henderson, returned to London from Paris, and proceeded to Downing S&eet, where he saw the Primo Minister, and discussed with him to-day's proceedings in Paris. . Mr. Henderson travelled to London in the company of Messrs. Stimson and Mellon, tho American Secretary of State and Treasurer respectively. Speaking to the Press just before he left Paris, Mr. Henderson said that ho felt very optimistic as to the outcome of- the London Conference, which opens to-morrow evening, and which ho expected would last only a few days. The principal event in Paris to-day was the meeting of international representatives at tho Ministry of the Interior, attended by the following delegates present in Paris on tho way to London: Messrs. Mellon, Stimson, and Edge (U.S.A.), Mr. Henderson, and Lord Tyrroll (Britain), Drs. Bruening and Curtius (Germany), ' Signor Grandi and Sign'or Manzoni (Italy), Messieurs Hymans, Franciqui, and Dhestroy (Belgium), and the Japanese Ambassador in Paris. A communique subsequently issued states that the French Prime Minister, M. Laval, who presided, and who was accompanied by Messieurs Briand, Plandin, Poneet, and Bertholot, thanked the delegates for responding to his invitation for a joint conversation on the conditions on which tho London Conference would begin. He explained to them tho conversations of the last few days, and in ' particular those which had taken place between tho French and German Ministers. He recalled the terms of the French suggestion. The German Chancellor gave a brief outline of the economic and financial crisis in Germany, and indicated certain financial remedies. Mr. Stimson, Mr. Henderson, Signor Grandi, Monsieur Hymans, and the Japanese Ambassador also spoke, and all gave assurance that their Governments would examine with the greatest care and sympathy the steps which could be taken to help Germany, whose difficulties were of concern to the whole of European economy. All expressed satisfaction' -at the Franco-German conversation. There was an agreement that the London Conference would be strictly limited to the question of the economic and financial crisis of Germany. M. Laval expressed a hope that the conversation which would take place between the French and German Ministers later would facilitate the task of the London Conference.