INCESSANT TOIL

Evening Post, Issue 2, 2 July 1932, Page 11

INCESSANT TOIL

DISREGARD OF DOCTORS

MACDONALD'S EFFORT

• LAUSANNE, Ist July. There is still a discrepancy of £200,000,000 between tile French and. German reparations proposals. The latter are offering £.100,000,000, whereas France is now demanding £.300,000,000. The British Prime Minister, Mr. Earnsay Mac Donald, is showing a complete disregard of medical injunctions to rest. He is daily working up to 1 o'clock in the morning, yet is out of doors at 7.30 a.m., and is toiling incessantly to produce agreement. Questioned as to whether he was still optimistic, Mr. Mac Donald said that he was always hopeful until a breakdown.

The Reparations Bureau sat for thirteen hours preparing a scheme for submission to the German delegates which would safeguard the position of creditor nations in respect of their own debts to Arneriea.

•The difficulty is that the Germans will not consent to a safeguarding clause, as they say that if provision is made against the possibility of the United States refusing to cancel debts it will defeat the .very finality which it is the primary aim of the Conferenco to achieve. ..-..-.

Before going to Paris, M. Herriot expressly stateel that Franco would not recede from the safeguarding clause for America, adding that he knew ho could count on the support of Britain