MODERN DIPLOMACY.
THE PERSONAL NOTE. POINCARE-MACDONALD LETTERS. BRITISH PREMIER'S DECLARATION. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) LONDON. May 28. The Poincare-MacDonald correspondence was written in a strain (pule novel in diplomacy. Mr MacDonald, inviting M. Poincare to Chequers, said: "I greatly desired the pleasure of meeting you personally at my own fireside." M. Poincare replied that he was' "looking forward with great pleasure lo passing an evening at Mr MacDonald's fireside and having a heart-to-heart talk." One of the most. Important passages is the.following, contained in M. Poincare's letter: "You were good enough to tell MM. Thcunis and Lymans that in the event of a German breach of the undertakings under General Dawes' report Germany would find herself confronted by Britain, Belgium and France, as inflexibly united as they were in the war." The newspapers point oid Dial this goes much furl her than any of Mr MacDonald's previous (\cclaralions.
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Waikato Times, Volume 97, Issue 15999, 30 May 1924, Page 7
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