REAL PEACE

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 22 August 1924, Page 9

REAL PEACE

THE FIRST STAGE. RESULT OF LONDON CONFERENCE. - M. HERRIOT MAKES HIS REPORT. SY CABLE—PEESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. Received Aug. 22, 1.35 p.m. PARIS, Aug. 21. The Chamber was packed when M. Herriot made his statement on the London Conference. He said the conference was only the first stage towards real peace. The agreement marked the beginning of a new era. It did not diminish the guarantee and, security ensured to France under the Treaty of Versailles, and the consequences would be grave if the agreement was repudiated. The policy regarding the Ruhr dominated the negotiations. Though he refused to allow the Ruhr to be included in the conference, it was impossible for him to eliminate the problem, all the more because there were the strongest reasons for thinking that if .France remained in the Ruhr she would remain absolutely alone. M. Herriot said it was a choice between the re-establish-ment of the inter-Allied Entente and the maintenance of isolated action. The French Government had neglected no opportunity for bringing up the question of inter-Allied debts, 'but it was impossible to join a discussion on debts with a discussion on the execution of the Dawes plan. Debts and the question of security would be discussed at a special conference later, but he had obtained an agreement that the evacuation of the Cologne zone would not be contemplated until Germany satisfied her treaty obligations, including disarmament,' the conference on which came, to a deadlock on July 26. He claimed that Prance had saved the conference, the failure of which seemed possible, by proposing an arbitration solution Reuter.