BRITAIN AND FRANCE
POINCARE’S STATEMENT. _ LONDON, Jan 17. Premier Poincare telegraphed to Mr Lloyd George as follows; “I am anxious in the name of the French Government, to express the assurance which I have already given in private capacity during our friendly conversation on Saturday, that France will be eager to take up, in a most cordial spirit the examination of the various questions still at issue between England and herself. I am firm in the hope that we shall succeed, with mutual_ —confidence, in solving thg problems in the best interests of our countries. The French Government is a faithful interpretation of the wishes of the French Parliament and people. I am convinced that both peoples,, who were closely allied on the field of battle, should, with their common interests in the maintenance of peace in Europe, be able to assure the execution of tho treaties they have signed and the reparation for the damage caused by thg invasion.”
STATEMENT BY LLOYD GEORGE. AUSTRALIAN AN» N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. . jjONDCN, Jan 17. Mr Lloyd George replying to a telegram from M. Poincare said: “My colleagues and I have received with great satisfaction your cordial reaffirmation, on behalf of the new French Government of assurances we exchanged. His Majesty’s Government has so recently outlined, in published documents, the policy of close co-operation which they desire to maintain with France that a repetition of their views is superflous. Suffice it to say that we regard the safety of French, soil against German aggression, the payment of reparation to France for the devastated areas, and the steady maintenance of the pro visions of the Treaty of Versailles as common interests of the French and British peoples, which they must stand together to serve. We desire only,- as we are glad to see you also desire, so to settle the outstanding problems that nothing may impair the completeness of the entente between our people and yours, and thus carry the comradeship of war into te higher task of bringing; European peoples together in a just and binding peace.” ,
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Hokitika Guardian, 19 January 1922, Page 2
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