GETTING READY

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXII, Issue 152, 13 June 1932, Page 7

GETTING READY

FCR LAUSANNE CONFERENCE BRITISH PREMIER’S DEPARTURE. PRELIMINARY CONVERSATIONS ARRANGED. (British Official Wireless.) (Received 12, 12.30 p.m.) Rugby, June 11. The Rt. Hon. Ramsay MacDonald, accompanied by Sir John Simon, left London this morning for Paris. They will be the guests of the French Prime Minister, M. Herriot, at dinner this evening, when the discussions, which will be continued to-morrow, on questions awaiting the consideration at the conferences in Lausanne and Geneva will be opened. A consultation with the French Government follows a further exchange of views between the British Prime Minister and the new Foreign Minister of Germany. “The conversations must, in tho nature of things, be purely preliminary,” The Times” says. “For reasons which, if disappointing, are conclusive, the Government of the United States is taking no part in the Lausanne Conference and the immediate business of the British and French Governments at the Paris meeting tomorrow is to discover as between themselves what measure of legal cancellation is possible. The special points to be raised by M. Herriot in the Anglo-French conversations were discussed at yesterday’s meeting of the French Cabinet. Later, according to the Paris correspondent of the “News Chronicle,” M. Herriot said that as the British and French viewpoints stand at present, there is very little difference between them.

During their Paris visit the British Ministers will stay at the British Embassy. The time of their departure for Switzerland has not yet been definitely fixed, hut it is anticipated that they will leave early next week, visiting Geneva on the way to Lausanne, where the Reparations Conference opens on Thursday. Other British delegates for Lausanne are Sir Herbert" Samuel, Mr. Neville Chamberlain and Mr. Runciman, who are to leave London on Tuesday.