LAUSANNE PROBLEMS

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXII, Issue 153, 14 June 1932, Page 8

LAUSANNE PROBLEMS

DISCUSSIONS IN PARIS. CLARIFYING THE SITUATION. Paris, June 12. It. Herriot, Mr MacDonald and Sir John Simon spent many hours in informal discussions during the week-end and it is believed they have done much to clarify the situation regarding Lausanne. A communique issued states that the talks have “shown community of views permitting us to foresee • just and efficacious solution of the problems to be studied at Lausanne.”

I* is understood one of the first problems will be the prolongation of the present reparations moratorium until after the American Presidential elections; secondly, an armaments holiday for a period of a year, to be accompanied by a percentage of reduction by all countries’ defence budgets. GERMAN PEOPLE’S SLOGAN ‘‘NO MORE TRIBUTE” Berlin, June 13. The German delegation under Herr Neurath is starting for Lausanne on Tuesday with the knowledge that rarely have the German people been so united as on the reparations problem. ‘‘No More Tribute” is the slogan of all political parties and any Government daring to pledge itself to sign an agreement to pay tribute, as reparations have always been called in Ger-

many, is certain to be swept out of existence by popular anger. Herr von Papen realises this well and intends to make it absolutely clear that Germany

cannot pay reparations any longer. Herr Neurath carefully avoids using the phrase ‘‘will not pay’,” which is what the German declaration actually amounts to.