AFTER GENEVA.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 223, 20 September 1928, Page 7

AFTER GENEVA.

GERMAN VIEWS.

Disappointed At No Rhineland

Settlement.

MUELLER'S STAND APPROVED

("Times" Cables.)

LONDOX, September 19,

The Berlin correspondent of the "Times" says the German Chancellor, Dr. Mueller, summarised for journalists the results of his visit to Geneva where he attended the Assembly of the League of Nations He said the German delegation never recognised either a direct or an indirect connection between the evacuation of the Rhineland and reparation payments. Dr. Mueller said he regretted that no immediate success was to follow upon his claim for the evacuation of the zone. The aim of Germany must be a general settlement. As regards the Committee of Verification and Conciliation, which it was decided to establish, Dr. Mueller said that before he went to Geneva the Cabinet had decided that the extension of the activities of any such body beyond 1933 could not possibly be considered. The Cabinet approved the attitude he had taken up at Geneva. A FORWARD STEP. Briand Pours Oil On Troubled Waters. SOMETHING ACHIEVED. (Australian and N.Z. Press Association.) BERLIN, September IS). An interview with the French Foreign Minister, M. Briand, is published in the "Berliner Tageblatt." In this M. Briand tries to pour oil on the troubled waters. He says it is incomprehensible that his recent speech at Geneva should have been interpreted as meaning that France intended to turn her back on Germany. The French Cabinet adhered absolutely to the Locarno standpoint. The result of the Geneva negotiations would, he hoped, lead to the position that nothing would remain to disquieten or irritate the two nations. M. Briand said he was convinced tl.at the agreement would soon reach the Verification Committee, which would be able to solve the troubles without the necessity of going to the Council of the League or of adopting a fighting attitude. He believed the reparation negotiations would progress rapidly. The Rhineland evacuation problem for the first time would be the object of official negotiations. That was a considerable step forward.