HAGUE PANEL

Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 4593, 19 May 1922, Page 1

HAGUE PANEL

DELEGATIONS LEAVING GENOA. VISCOUNT GREY ON THE CONFERENCE. URGES UNDERSTANDING WITH FRANCE. (Bj Electric Telegraph-iAusfc.-N.Z. Cable Association.) Genoa, May 17. Tho Sub-Commission adopted a proposal that the next.conference meet at The Hague. The Dutch representative undertook to afford the Soviet all facilities. It was decided that lie truce remain in force for four months after The Hague meeting. Tho final plenary session will he held on Friday morning, after which the Empire delegates will return to London. London, May 17. Viscount Grey, in a' letter to the National Liberal Federation, said the Genoa Conference provided an example of what should be avoided to secure the end desired. A close understanding with France and co-opera-tion of the United States were desirable. Supporters of the Prime Minister acclaimed the Genoa. Conference to his political credit and thus created the impression thaE it was in some way connected with domestic politics. The chances of success were thus impaired. France was filled with distrust and the United States refused to participate, and the Genoa Conference became a sort of international gamble. Close understanding with France and tho goodwil lof the United States was the only sound foundation for economic and financial reconstruction. A Coalition Government was a source of instability and danger when continued long after a war.