LONDON TALKS

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 56, 29 November 1937, Page 5

LONDON TALKS

(British Official Wireless.1

Wide Agenda Fixed ANGLO-FRENCH POLICY General Appeasement is the Objective COLONIES, SPAIN, FAR EAST

(Eeceived 29, 12.30 p.m.) EUGBY, Nov. 28. A wide Tange of international quew tions will be surveyed in the Anglem French talks which will begin . iai London to-morrow, although no chang* in the fundamentals of British. or French foreign policy. is expected. - 1^ is noted with satisfaction that Berlitt fully recognises the desirability of thef conversatons, and it may be emphasised that where the talks coneern European questions their putpose will be to examine the possibility of bringing closer 6 the Berlin-Eome axis and ' thef special relationship existing between1 Britain and France— but not" at th# expense of any other party. The French Ministers will hear from Lord Halifax his own account of hii German visit. While the question of colonies is ex* pected to be discussed, it should b«

borne in mind that this complex queo* tion affects countries not represented at tlie talks — for example, Belgium and the three Dominions. Apart altogether from matters in. which Germauy is especially interested^ there are other important question« upon which the exchange • of viewa will, it is believed, prove valuable^ One relates to Spain. Of more seriotis immediate imporCs ance, however is the Far Eastern aitua* tion and the threatened interfereneo with the Chinese Customs service af Shanghai. , There will probably, therefore^ be al disposition at the meeting to recogniso that the threat of war in Europe is not immediate, and to try to use that f acton to reduce the risk of war elsewhere and, to make progress towards general appeasement.