FIVE-POWER CONFERENCE

Greymouth Evening Star, 25 July 1936, Page 7

FIVE-POWER CONFERENCE

IMPROVED PROSPECTS.

t British OFFICIAL wireless]

RUGBY, July 24.

The Foreign Secretary saw the German and Italian Charges D’Affaires at the Foreign Office, to inform them regarding yesterday’s meeting in London of representatives of Belgium, Prance and Britain. This morning, both in Berlin and Rome, the diplomatic representatives of the three Powers had acquainted the German and Italian Governments with the conclusions reached at the meeting, and conveyed the expression of the three Powers’ hope of a favourable reply to the invitation to a FivePower conference.

A communique issued at Berlin said

• Unit the Director of the Political Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, who in the absence of Baron Neurath, received the three Powers’ • representatives, while not in a position to indicate forth wit li the answer of his Government, “gave them to understand their demarche would be greeted ' with interest and sympathy.” The reception accorded in Berlin and Rome to the three Power initiative, ; according to information so far avall- , able in London, appears to have been highly satisfactory, and encourages . the hope that the increasing deteriora- , tion in the European situation of re- . cent times may be arrested at last, ; giving a prospect of renewed co- ; operation in the attempt to reach a ; general and lasting settlement. The French Prime Minister, acocm--1 panied by Madame Blum, left Croydon ■ 1 by air for Paris.