POLICY OF CONCILIATION

Evening Star, Issue 20051, 17 December 1928, Page 8

POLICY OF CONCILIATION

THE LUGfiHO CONVERSATIONS STATEMENT BY BIG THREE (British Official Wireless.) Press Association— By Telegraph—Copyright. HUG BY, December 16. (Received December 17, at uoon.) V joint statement from Sir Austen Chamberlain, Mi Bnand, and Dr Stresemanu was issued at Lugano yesterday as follows: — “ Tho session of tlio Council of the League of Nations has enabled us to resume personally the meetings winch have been interrupted for some time and to proceed to a very useful exchange of views. These conversations have had tho effect of confirming our view that the policy of conciliation and rapprochement followed by our respective Governments is the best policy to assure peace. We remain faithfully attached to that policy. In this spirit we will continue the negotiations which weio begun as a result of the agreement arrived at in Geneva on September 16 by the six interested Powers. We are determined to do everything in our power to arrive as soon as possible at a final settlement of the difficulties arising out of the war, and thus assure, upon a basis of mutual confidence, the- happy development of relations between our respective countries.”