ANGLO-FRENCH TALK

Hokitika Guardian, 15 September 1933, Page 5

ANGLO-FRENCH TALK

ON M 3 ABM AMENT CONFERENCE OPENS NEXT WEEK (Per British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, September 13. The Prime Minister, who j s at Lossiemouth, Scotland, is expected to ae’urn to London on Sunday. On Monday morning he will he visited by Mr Norman Davis, United States delegate to the Disarmament Conference, wh.o during his visit to London a; the weekend will also discuss certain questions in .connection with the work of the Confe’-ence with Mr A. Henderson.

i Mr Davi s will leave ,Londo n fo, r Paris j next week and probably will .participate in the later stages of the Anglo-French disarmament conversations there. J The British Government will be represented at these conversations, which begin on -Monday, by Captain Eden .(Under Secretary fo,r Foreign Affairs), who will be accompanied by Mr Alee Cadogan. He is expected to leave London o n Sunday. The need lor a clear understanding between the two countries on certain aspects of disarmament before the meetings are resumed at Geneva, is fully recognised here, and it is anticipated that in next week’s convcrsitions the question of the internaEonwl control of armaments will receive parti-' cu.lar attention. The ' full ■ details of the French proposals for effecting such control are not yet known, and the talks will, to a large extent, be ex- , ploratory. At their conclusion Captain Eden probably will return to London to report before proceeding to Geneva, where the League Cu.ncil will meet on , September 22.

■IMPORTANCE OF CONFERENCE

BRITAIN ACCEPTS PROPOSAL.

LONDON. Septembp v 14

The “Manchester Guardian’s” Paris ■Correspondent says: “The greatest importance is attached to Monday's disarmament talks. Captain iEiden is expected to present. ,a- revised version of the British Draft Convention. Tt is understood that Britain has accepted the French proposals for control m-d inspection, including the “trial po-Vl” proposal ; but is seeking a definite ■'French undertaking to disarm ns soon •as the “trial” p’-oved satisfactory. Messages from Berlin indie-,'te man alarm at the possibility of such ail Anglo-French compromise.