MINISTERS IN BERLIN.

Waikato Times, Volume 110, Issue 18393, 29 July 1931, Page 7

MINISTERS IN BERLIN.

INCULCATING GOODWILL. ENTHUSIASTIC RECEPTIONS. BRITISH ASSISTANCE APPRECIATED (Official Wireless.) (Received July 29, 11.35 a.m.) RUGBY, July 28. Mr Ramsay MacDonald, (Prime Minister), and Mr A. Henderson (Foreign Minister) this morning met in conversation with Dr. Bruening (Chancellor ) and other German ministers, after which they visited President' Ilindenburg. They have been accorded an extremely cordial reception wherever they have gone in Berlin. At a dinner which Dr. Bruening gave, the chancellor declared that Germany would use her utmost strength to overcome the crisis, but she must count on the co-operation of other nations. Dr. Bruening acknowledged the help afforded by Britain by her prompt acceptance of the Hoover Plan. The newspapers recall that Mr Ramsay MacDonald is the first British Prime Minister to pay an official visit to Berlin since Lord Beaconsfleld attended the 1878 congress there. The Times states that the leading banks in London have already followed the recommendations of the London conference to “ maintain the volume of credits they have already extended to Germany,” by Informing their customers in that country that the credits of which they have already made use will not be withdrawn or reduced. Mr MacDonald and Mr Henderson in Berlin to-day discussed their visit to Germany with representatives ot the press. Mr MacDonald said the conversations were a continuation of those begun at Chequers, and were part of the continued contact between various nations, with the aim of removing the suspicion and misunderstanding still prevailing, so that there might be a revival of trade all over the world, the establishment of financial stability and confidence as to the successful issue to the disarmament problems.