ALLIED CONFERENCE.

Hokitika Guardian, 17 July 1924, Page 2

ALLIED CONFERENCE.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION

WILL DAWES PLAN GOP NEW YORK, July 1-L Mr P. 1L Noyes, the former United States member of the Rhineland Commission, in a letter to General ('. G. Dawes, has predicted the doom of the Dawes report and a continued deadlock between France and Germany unless the United States representative at the conference in London is instructed hv his Government to inform Era lice that the United States desires that she shall renounce an independent policy in the Ruhr. “Your new relation to the Republican Party.” he sa\s, “enables you to urge upon the udmin.struti.oii That Ambassador Keilog, at the London Conference, shall abandon that half-hearted attitude that lias been imposed upon ail our representatives in Europe during the past four years, and state plainly to France that the United States U'lieves the time lias come for that country to make such concessions as are nccessarv to get together with Britain in up honest, effective attempt to put into operation the Dawes plan. ’ Mr Noyes added: “1 have reluctuidy ai-i-ived at the conclusion that your plan is about to go into the discard, with many previous plans for the settlement of the Franco-German feud. Ihe American people have set their hearts on the success of the Dawes Plan.

THE CRITICAL POINTS

LONDON, duly HI

The newspapers describe today s inter-Allied Conference as the most important conference since the Yorsailles’ Treatv was signed.

The Labour paper, "Daily Herald s diplomatic correspondent says:—“lt is generally recognised that the Conference must navigate the narnwest nt channels between making two little concessions to the French National view point in order not to encounter M. Poincare's opposition and making too much concession thereto, which would jeopardise the raising of the forty million sterling loan for Germany.” Political circles are guardedly optimistic, hut the City tends to pessimism, fearing that the politicians will not accept terms such as would enable the llotation of the loan. DEI .EG AT I ON'S WELCOMED LONDON, July l-l. The French delegation to the conference were welcomed by Mr Macdonald and the members of the 1- roucli Embassy. Mr Macdonald and M. lleriott ox-chnn-'cd most cordial greetings. 'I he crowd shouted “Yive Lleriott! Good old Ramsay!” The French delegation does not include Marshal Koch, hut his Chief of Stall', General Desticker, is a member. The Italian and Belgian delegations have also arrived ail’d were welcomed by representatives of the Premier. SOCIALIST YIEW. AMSTERDAM, July Ifi. The joint eon lore nee ot the International Federation of Trade I moos and Labour Socialist International car-,-ied a resolution qualifying approval of the Dawes report as the best method available, under the prevailing conditions, for ending the Ear,moan chaos.