LOCARNO POLICY

Evening Star, Issue 19589, 22 June 1927, Page 6

LOCARNO POLICY

DKAHISITY OF THE POWERS ■The geneva conversations. (British Official News.) Press Association—By Wireless—Copyright. RUGBY, Juno 21. (Received June 22, at 11 a.m.) The private conversations which took place at Geneva between the Foreign Ministers during the recent meeting of the League Council, were the subject of a statement in the House of Commons to-day. The Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs (Mr G. Locker-Lamp-son) said that representatives of Britain, France, Italy, Japan, Belgium, and Germany took part in two conversations. There was a free exchange of views on all matters of common interest, and explanations were offered of tho policies of the different countries represented. No new engagements were undertaken or even sought by any of the parties, but all expressed their determination to continue to execute the policy of Locarno, and the British Foreign Secretary (Sir Austen Chamberlain) reports that he is confident that one result of the conversations will be to facilitate the early execution of those measures which still remain to be taken to give complete effect to the previous agreements of the Rowers —such, for instance, as the resolution of the Ambassadors’ Conference relating to troops in the Rhineland, and various points still outstanding in regard to disarmament.