POLICY OF LOCARNO

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16373, 22 June 1927, Page 8

POLICY OF LOCARNO

POWERS' CO-OPERATION GENEVA CONVERSATIONS (British Official Wireless.) Kec. 2 p.m. LONDON", June 21. Private conversations which took place at Geneva between the foreign ministers during the recent meeting of the League Council were, the subject of a statement in the House of Commons to-day. The Parliamentary Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Mr G. JLocker-Lamp-son, said: "The representatives of Britain, France, Italy, Japan, Belgium, and Germany took part in two conversations. There was a free exchange of views on aTI matters of common interest and explanations were offered of the policies of tlie different countries represented. .No new engagements were undertaken, or even sought, by any of the parties, but all expressed their detorminatiQn to continue to execute the policy of Locarno. "The British Foreign Secretary reports that he is confident that one result of the conversations wijl be to facilitate as early execution on one side as on the other of those measures which still remain to be taken to give complete effect to the previous agreements of the Powers, such, for instance, as the resolution of the Ambassadors' Conference relating to the troops in the Rhmeland, and various points still outstanding in regard to disarmament."