ANGLO-FRENCH PACT NEAR
LONDON, January 19. According to a semi-official statement issued in Paris, Britain and France are on the point of reaching an agreement in regard to the desirability a renewal of the moratorium to Germany for six or twelve months from ts expiry in July. The feeling is strengthening that a definite solution of the problem is not obtainable at present, especially in view of the elections in France. Germany and the United States. Naturally America’s debtors, who are also creditors of Germany, jointly rei uest identical treatment from the | United States. I If a diplomatic agreement is reached 'on these lines, the Lausanne Conference may become superfluous, or it might be attended by experts only. M. Laval yesterday had a conference with Herr Hoesch, with a view, it is 1 lieved, to securing Germany’s assent to this solution. It is* stated in several quarters that Mr Ramsay MacDonald may not go to Lausanne, partly owing to the diminshed importance of the Conference and )wing to pressure of home affairs.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 326, 20 January 1932, Page 1
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