MUTUAL AIMS.

Wairarapa Age, 30 November 1937, Page 5

MUTUAL AIMS.

WHAT FRANCE & BRITAIN DESIRE. BASIS ON WHICH CONCESSIONS ARE POSSIBLE. (Received Monday, 8.55 p.m.) LONDON, November 29. The Paris correspondent of ••The Times” says the French preoccupation, like the British, is to initiate fruitful co-operation with Germany and Italy regardless of differences in regime, but it is emphasised that attempts to dissociate Britain and France are doomed, to failure. Moreover there is no question of either country giving up its existing friendships or League obligations. The common task, it is held, is to explore all possibilities of collaboration between the two groups of Powers without either sacrificing to the other its essential principles and vital interests. It follows, therefore that any readiness on the part of the West to make concessions must be accompanied by a willingness by other Powers to abate the economic barriers behind which they are entrenching themselves. MISSION ARRIVES. FRENCH PRIME MINISTER & COLLEAGUES. LONDON, November 29. The French Prime Minister (M. Chautemps) and Foreign Minister (M. Delbos) arrived in London accompanied. by M. Alexis Leger, formerly French Minister in China and at present Director in the Foreign Office of the Asiatic Department. It is understood that Britain will not announce fundamental changes in her foreign policy nor ask France to change hers. X'