TALKS IN PARIS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 254, 23 September 1933, Page 7

TALKS IN PARIS

DISARMAMENT PROBLEMS. THREE COUNTRIES CONFER. SUBSTANTIAL PROGRESS MADE. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (British Official Wireless.) Received September 23, 11.45 a.m. RUGBY, Sept. 22. Sir John Simon, accompanied by Captain 11. A. Eden and Hon. A. G. Cadogan, of the Foreign Office, reached Paris at 11 a.m. The Anglo-French conversations on disarmament will be resumed at the British Embassy, which step was originally arranged some time ago to enable M. Dalauier and Mr Stanley Baldwin, who are visiting the Embassy on their way home after a holiday at Aix, to make each other’s acquaintance. Sir John Simon and Captain Eden, with M. Boncour, will now be among Lord Tyrrell’s guests. They are leaving Paris tor Geneva this evening to attend the League meetings. The Council meeting to-day will be mainly occupied with formal business. Further conversations on the draft disarmament convention now before the Disarmament Conference took jilace in Paris to-day. M. Daladier and M. Paul Boncour attended a luncheon party at the British Embassy, where those present included Lord Tyrrell, Sir John Simon, Mr Stanley Baldwin and Captain Eden. After these conversations concluded, a conference, which lasted two hours, took place at the Quai D’Orsay. Those present were Lord Tyrrell, Sir John Simon. Captain Eden (Britain), M. PauL Boncour, M. Leger and M. Massigli (France), Mr Norman Davis, Mr Dulles and Mr Hugh Gibson, the American Ambassador in Paris, A communique issued later says the purpose of the exchanges of views was to reach an understanding which would facilitate the debates .in the Disarmament Conference when it is resumed at Geneva next month, and substantial progress has been made in this direction.