CONFERENCE OPENS TO-DAY.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17159, 1 October 1923, Page 10

CONFERENCE OPENS TO-DAY.

GREAT INTEREST TAKEN. LONDON, September 30. The greatest interest is being taken in the Imperial Conference, to open on Monday in the historic Cabinet room at Downing Street. The Sunday papers are full of details and articles. Mr Garvin, writing in the e: Observer,” begins a three column article with an anecdote. AY hen someone complained to Dr Johnson about a. dog that did not dance well. Johnson replied that the wonder was that it did so at all. “So with the which npvcr can work miracles separated Bt long intervals. Tho miracle is that it meets at all.” Mr Garvin proceeds: “ The question for the Conference when it touches foreign policy, is whether France does,

or does not, intend to lift her rigid, on-sided veto on the restoration of normal economic conditions in Europe, and the whole world.”

The diplomatic correspondent of the “Observer’* says: “ Th© most important issue, is how Empire resources can he mobilised for the immediate relief of the Empire, as a whole, from the disastrous effects of after-war diplomacy in Europe.” The “ Sunday Express ” insists tha t the chief problem for the Conference is unemployment in Britain.