CLOUDS WILL PASS

New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 11739, 29 January 1924, Page 7

CLOUDS WILL PASS

ENTENTE SHOULD STAND GOOD SENSE WILL TELL. Reuter’s Telecram. (Received January 28, 7.15 p.m.) PARIS, January 27. Interviewed' by the newspaper “Quotidien,” the organ of the left bloc, Mr Ramsay Maodona-ld declared that British public opinion was uneasy in regard to the French policy. lie two peoples at heart were most friendly. The dangerous clouds to-day were due to misunderstandings which frank, gympathetic explanations would clear up. The Reparations Expert Committees would not be able to find a satisfactory solution within the narrow limits laid down. Hie question of France s debt to Britain could not be broached without discussing the whole European situation, and similarly in regard to tho Anglo-French guarantee pact. ENTER GERMANY. TSie Socialists did not believe that the safety of the nation should 1 depend on armaments or alliances. The British Government would work for the admission of Germany and Russia l to the League of Nations. Germany’s entry into the League would he the best guarantee of safety for France. An entirely new international policy.ought to be inaugurated, and the prejudices and tricks of the old diplomacy abandoned- , ... ~ He refused to believe that they would fail to establish a friendly entente with France. He was relying on the good sense and peaceful intentions of the French people, who would support the policy of Labour in delivering Europe from the hatreds and fears. WHAT LABOUR DESIRES. Labour would favour the accession to power of the German Democrats, who were certainly sincerely pacifist, and disposed to pay reparations. The separatist movement was spontaneous. It did not concern Britain, but the Labour Government would not recognise any Separatist Government engineered by a foreign Power.