BRITAIN AND FRANCE.
■; BETTER UNDERSTANDING WANTED. DEBATE BY UNIONISTS. By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright, Received October 27. 11 .6 a.m. LONDON, Oct 26. At tho National Unionist ence, Viscount Cuvzon, in submitting a motion inviting the puvty to declare that the peace and prosperity of Britain can be based only uppman intimate and cordial understanding with France and the other Allies,; emphatically denied that it was hostile to the Government. If the Government were right that the French occupation :of the Ruhr was illegal, they should have said so at first. He held no brief for France; he did not want Britain tied to France’s coat-tails, but he wanted a rapprochement. If Britain and France got together again, it would be possible to hold an allied conference to deal with the , international situation. , Mr Victor Fisher, in seconding the motion; demanded a free vote in order that the Government be finder no delusions regarding the party’s feeling. Mr Ronald McNeill intervened and appealed that the motion be not taken to a division.—A. and N.Z. cable.-
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIV, Issue 848, 27 October 1923, Page 5
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