BRITAIN AND FRANCE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19198, 14 June 1924, Page 10

BRITAIN AND FRANCE

“ STRENUOUS FRIENDLINESS.” LONDON, March 30. “ Are the MacDonald-Poincare letters an illustration of the old or the new diplomacy?” asks The Times in a loading article. “ The novelty of the correspondence is slightly perplexing,” says the paper, “and curiously drifts into vague amenities, after a fervent and resolute beginning. At all events the correspondence illustrates an important transitional period in the discussion of the reparations problem; but loaves a general impression of strenuous friendliness, beating up against the bard facts of policy. The correspondence does not suggest anv unhappy divergences between the British and the French. The policy has been essentially modified if there is any-material ground for Mr MacDonald’s hopeful assurances of very real progress.”