BRITISH PRIME MINISTER

Evening Star, Issue 20995, 8 January 1932, Page 9

BRITISH PRIME MINISTER

* MANY CONSULTATIONS PREPARING FOR COMING EVENTS (British Official Wireless.) Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. RUGBY, January 7. (Received January 8, at 11 a.m.) The Prime Minister arrived in London to-day on his return from Scotland. For the next few days he will be in consultation with individual Ministers and the experts who are studying afresh the reports of tho various Cabinet committees. It is understood that good progress has been made in considering tho preliminary work for the Lausanne Reparations Conference. Sir Leith Ross, of the Treasury, who has been carrying on conversations with the French experts on the reparations question, will discuss with the Prime Minister the whole question, in the light of tire report of yesterday’s Cabinet Committee meeting, before ho returns to-morrow to Paris to resume the conversations. ‘ Tho Times ’ says it may well be, when the Cabinet meets next week, that the work has progressed so far as to enable decisions to be taken.

THE BRITISH DELEGATES. RUGBY, January 7. (Received January 8, at noon.) The two principal British delegates appointed to attend the forthcoming Reparations Conference are Mr Neville Chamberlain and Sir John Simon. It is uncertain whether the Prime Minister will attend. The Lausanne municipality has placed the Hotel De Chateau Ouchy at the disposal of the conference. The hotel was the scene of the 1922 conference. The plenary, or publio sittings, will bo held in the Hotel Beau Ravage.

FIRST FULL MEETING OF CABINET. RUGBY, January 7. (Received January 8, at 1 p.m.) Cabinet will on Monday hold its first full meeting since the Christmas holiday to consider the statement of policy which the Prime Minister will make at the plenary session of the Burma Conference on Tuesday, Matters in connection with tho Reparations and Disarmament Conferences will be considered by Cabinet on Wednesday. The Prime Minister to-day received Sir Samuel Hoare and afterwards had a conversation with Sir Brio Drummond.