MAJOR PROBLEMS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 72, Issue 150, 25 June 1929, Page 8

MAJOR PROBLEMS

BRITISH FOREIGN POUCY IMPORTANT NATIONAL PERIOD. [ British Official Wireless. ] RUGBY. June 23. The Observer to-day calls attention to the fact that “partly by coincidence and partly by the new Government’s activities it happens that all the major issues, without exception, of British foreign policy havje become a matter of immediate and simultaneous concern. namely, naval restriction, reparations, inter-Allied debts, the Rhineland. Russia and the optional clause of the World Court. Not all of these subjects are likely to be given a place in the King’s Speech, but all arc now exercising the minds of Messrs McDonald. Henderson, and Snowden.” The announcement that Mr Hugh Gibson, who represented United States* interests in the Three-Power Naval Conference, is leaving Washington for London this week, and will consult with General Dawes, the new American Ambassador here, is taken as denoting a further step in the naval reduction discussion, and the Observer regards it as likely that more definite and realistic information about different “yardsticks” for gauging naval strength may be heard in the next few weeks.

As to the reparations question, the Sunday Times anticipates immediate results to follow the signature of the report of the Committee of Experts. It say§ that discussions are already entered into between the Governments concerned on the subject of the time and place of meeting of their representatives to consider the report and the question of the Rhineland evacuation. It is anticipated that London will be chosen as the meeting place for thje proposed discussion between the representatives of the Governments,