PEACE IN EUROPE

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22481, 27 July 1936, Page 10

PEACE IN EUROPE

FURTHER CONFERENCE BERLIN AND ROME WANTED INVITATIONS DELIVERED By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Received July 20, 5.(5 p.m.) British Wirolcsa RUGBY, July 25 The Foreign Secretary, Mr. Eden, saw the German and Italian Charges d'Affaires at. the Foreign Office yesterday, and informed them regarding yesterday's meeting in London of the representatives of Belgium, France and Britain. In the morning, both in Berlin and Rome, the diplomatic representatives of the three Powers had acquainted the German and Italian Governments with the conclusions reached at the meeting.

Tlio Ambassadors conveyed an expression of the hope of the three Powers that they would receive a favourable reply to their invitation to a Five-Power Conference.

A communique issued in Berlin stated that, the director of the political department of tho Ministry of Foreign Affairs, who, in the absence of Baron von Ncuratli, received the three Powers' representatives, wliilo ho was not in a position to indicate forthwith the answer of his Government "gave them to understand that their invitation would bo greeted with interest and sympathy." The reception accorded in Berlin and in Rome to tho three Powers' initiative, according to the information so far available in London, appears to have been highly satisfactory. It encourages the hope that tho increasing deterioration in the European situation of recent times may bo arrested at last, thus giving a prospect of renewed co-opera-tion in an attempt to roach a general and lasting settlement. Tho French Prime Minister, M. Blum," accompanied by Madame Blum, left Croydon by air for Paris.

GERMAN REPLY NON-COMMITTAL NATURE (Received July 2G, f1.35 p.m.) LONDON, July 25 A message from Berlin states that the German reply to the three Powers' invitation was non-committal. A despatch from Paris says the French Cabinet approved M. Blum's report of the London- negotiations.