THE ALLIES

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 26 July 1924, Page 5

THE ALLIES

QUESTIONS OF PRINCIPLE. THE FRENCH ATTITUDE,. CONFERENCE AT CRITICAL STAGE. BY CABLE—PREBB ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT LONDON, July 24. Efforts to evoive a compromise to meet the bankers’ requirements is causing continuous activity in conference circles. -VI. Herriot (the French Premier)" still insists on maintaining the French right to act alone in the event of an. emergency adding frankly that his Government would not last a day if it surrendered on that point. iM. Herriot assembled the representatties of the French Press in London and begged them to exhort French public opinion to be calm and patient. He' added that he intended to be firm on essential questions of principles, but he said the Allied Governments must be given time to settle their difficulties. \ The Paris correspondent of the. Times says that, whether A s a result of M. Herriot’s request or not, the French Press is less vehement than usual, and while the general impression is that the conference at the moment has reached a deadlock, there is a growing belief that somehow or other, sooner °r . later, a solution wil lbe found. This, no doubt, is largely due to the alarm which the prospect of failure naturally evokes.