THREE POWER PLAN.

Wairarapa Age, 27 July 1936, Page 5

THREE POWER PLAN.

RECEPTION IN GERMANY & ITALY. EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST & SYMPATHY. DESIRE FOR A LASTING SETTLEMENT. RUGBY, July 24. The Foreign Secretary saw the German and Italian Charges d’Affaires at the Foreign Office this afternoon to inform them regarding yesterday’s meeting in London of the representatives of Belgium, France and Great Britain. This morning both in Berlin and Rome diplomatic representatives of the three Powers had acquainted the German and Italian Government with th© conclusions reached at the meeting, and had conveyed an expression of the three Powers hope of a favourable reply to the invitation to five-Power conference. A communique issued in Berlin said that the Director of the Political Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, who, in the absence of Baron von Neurath, received th© three Powers’ representatives, while not in a position to indicate forthwith the answer of his Government, “gave them to understand that their demarche would be greeted with interest and sympathy.'’ The reception accorded in Berlin and Rome To the three-power initiative, according to information so far available in London, appears to have been highly satisfactory and encourages the hope that the increasing deterioration in the European situation of recent tmies may have been arrested at last, giving a prospect of renewed co-opera-tion in the attempt to reach a general and lasting settlement.—(British Offic lal Wireless.)