BRITISH STATESMEN LEAVE

Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 8, 11 January 1939, Page 9

BRITISH STATESMEN LEAVE

SHORT PARIS DISCUSSION

COMPLETE IDENTITY OF VIEWS

(By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.) (Received January 11, 12.30 p.m.) LONDON, January 10. The Prime Minister (Mr. Chamberlain) and the Foreign Secretary (Lord Halifax), with their advisers and secretarial staff, left at 11 a.m. for Paris on the first stage of the Rome visit. After conversations with M. Daladier and M. Bonnet in the late afternoon, they will board the Rome express for a night-long journey. They will be greeted at Genoa tomorrow morning with, civic and military pomp. They will then proceed to Rome as guests of Signor Mussolini. There will be a State banquet in the evening. The conversations will take place on January 12 and 13. A great public welcome is being prepared in Rome. All the public buildings are flying the British and Italian flags, and the pala-

tial Villa Madama, where the delegation is to stay, has been specially renovated and gaily decorated. Observers comment on the absence of extensive police precautions in contrast with Herr Hitler's visit. (Received January 11, 1 p.m.) PARIS, January 10. "The conversation confirmed a complete identity of general views previously established between the two Governments." This communique was issued after the interview between Mr. Chamberlain and Lord Halifax and M. Daladier and M. Bonnet. The French Cabinet had met in the morning, President Lebruri presiding, when M. Bonnet read the Note recently sent to London defining the French attitude to Italian claims, which Ministers approved. It is understood that M. Daladier took the initiative ih the interview with Mr. Chamberlain later, when he reiterated the French viewpoint. M. Daladier thereafter told the Press: "I am very satisfied."