FOREIGN POLICY PROBLEMS.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 25 June 1929, Page 6

FOREIGN POLICY PROBLEMS.

LABOUR CABINET HAS HEAVY TASK AHEAD REPARATIONS DISCUSSIONS. (British Official W’ireless.) RUGBY, .Time -3. The Observer to-day cads attentiont.e the fuel that; "Partly l>y coincidonee, partly l>v the new government activity, it happens that all the major issues, without, exception, of British foreign policy have become a matter of immediate and simultaneous concern, namely, naval restriction, reparations,, inter-Allied debts, the Rhineland, Russia, and the optional clause of the World Court. Not a I of these subjects are likely if b.> given a place in the King’s Speech, but all arc now exercising tiie minds of Messrs MacDonald, Henderson, and Snowdon.” The announcement that Mr. Hugh Gibson, who represented the United states interests at the throe-power naval conference, is leaving Washington for London this week, and will eon suit with General Dawes, the now American Ambassador here, is taken as denoting a further step in the naval reduction discussions, and the Observer regards it as likely that more definite and realistic information about different “yardsticks*’ for gauging am vat strength mav be heard in the next lev*’ weeks.

As to the icparations question, tho Sunday Times anticipates immediate results to follow the signature of the report of the committee of Exports. It says that discussions are already entered’ into between the governments concerned on the subject of the time and place of a meeting of their representatives to consider the report and the question of the Rhineland evacuation. It is anticipated that London will bo chosen as the mooting . place ton the ■proposed, discussions between the representatives of'the governments. .

Rhineland Evacuations Received Monday, 7.0 p.m. LONDON, June 215. The Daily Mail 'understands that the British government hopes to an* nounce the date of the evacuation of the Rhineland before the autumn, and a discussion regarding tlnh with II raucc and Belgium lias already begun.