PEACE OF EUROPE

Feilding Star, Volume 2, Issue 103, 18 February 1924, Page 7

PEACE OF EUROPE

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MR. MacDON ALU'S ADVICE ißy Electric Cable.- Copyright). Aust, and .N.Z- Cab!* Association). London. Feb. 15. Interviewed by M. Sauerwein, correspondent of he Matin in London, Mr MauDondd emphasised that he had not committed himself in regard to an international reconstruction conference. Such a conference must l, t , the end an, 1 not the beginning of the chapter. It stood no chance unless the preliminary examination tack indivduals. He would use completely clarified the problems. He desired frank and honest exchanges of views with France through its Ambassadors, and. if necessary, by personal correspondence. Differences of opinion did not matter, provided they were without ulterior motive. He honestly intended to discuss ideas and not to atneither strategy nor complicated formulae in diplomacy, but would proceed straightforwardly, solely desiring to alleviate Europe's "idferiugs by settling a few of the essential pro Idems. In the proposed rgreement with France he was strongly idealistic, and believed i'i the possibility of human progress, lie regretfully admitted that warlike elements were gaining ground in Germany, lie was ct opinion that we had not used the host means to support the moral elite of Germany, who, to-day, were almost decimated by misery. The good clement- in Germany n est l.e strengthened, and the Imperialistic, bellicos" ideas of the junkers most he eradicated. Franco and I'iitain should co-operate morally. ccomonieally, and politically in ruler to eradicate everything had in Eur \ e. He concluded by abjuring all to work with confidence.