M. BRIAND

Evening Star, Issue 21005, 20 January 1932, Page 9

M. BRIAND

RETIREMENT FROM POLITICS •

SIR JOHN SIMON’S REGRET,

(British Official Wireless.) Pres? Association—By Telegraph—Copyright,

RUGBY, January IS. Sir John Simon, in a letter which he sent to M. Briand when he heard of the latter’s decision not to remain in office, wrote: “I cannot allow the occasion to pass without expressing my own personal regret at your decision. After your long and distinguished tenure of office and the great services you have rendered to the cause of peace I need not assure you that it would have been a matter of especial gratification to be enabled to continue with you the collaboration which we began so happily together. As this is not to be I must console myself with the reflection that you will continue, though out of office, to lend the weight of your great authority in the cause for which you have, worked so long and with such pre-eminent distinction.”