LONDON AGREEMENT

Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 32, 7 February 1935, Page 11

LONDON AGREEMENT

EUROPEAN GOVERNMENTS

BELGIUM APPROVES

(Britlsb Official Wireless.)

(Received February 7, noon.)

RUGBY, February 6.

The terms of the" Anglo-French agreement,. reached last weekend in London, continue under close examination in most European capitals. Apart from the British'and French Governments, the Belgian Government is as yet the only one to make known its views. In, Brussels an official communique has been issued, which states that, after hearing-a report,from the Foreign Minister, Cabinet < expressed satisfaction -at the understanding reached between Britain and France, as well as between; France "and Italy, with,a .view to the reinforcement ,of peace, and further unanimously recog;nises that it would be to Belgium's interest to, participate in the negotiation of an air convention for Western Europe.; ' ' '■ VW-'-'-;" V ':- In Italy the' entire' Press welcomes the, London conversations as indicating a great stride'forward towards'the reconstruction and pacification of, Europe.....-.;^ ;".'"; ,' v ■•"- * ■"■'■'■ ■ •"■'■. ■■■ v; In Germany ttie proposals are natu-, rally enough ;being subjected to close analysis, but, according to most Berlin, correspondents of British papers, these, proposals ' ha^eY broadly' speaking, created quite a good "impression. "The Times" tqdajr recognises that a great many, knotty*' points must be gradually disentangled before Euixv pean statesmen can'reach the general settlement foreshadowred." in the London Agreement, ;buf: continues:; "The vital conditions of success are that no difficulties shall be raised in a merely quibbling or obstructive spirit; that a really fresh.start should be. made on the basis of equality in negotiation, which is implicit in, every line of the London" Agreement, and that the great object in . view should never ! for a moment be forgotten. The little gain or loss to one country or another here and there is' the merest trifle compared to the -. achievement of V resettlement of Europe. The war'will-hot'have been politically liquidated until all countries stand again in theory and in fact upon a footing of equality. ,The execution 'of these London '■' proposals will' clearly need patience arid courage. Even the negotiations of.Locarno took the best part of a! year, and the. present task is mofe complicated. On the other hand, there is a better general understanding of the issue at stake, and a more intense determination to nrevent political quarrels from any longer hampering; the 'restoration of prosperity." ': •'; " ;j -;■ •■'.■■■. -; ' ■ .•■*•'■ -! - !;