EPARATION POLICY

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 116, 8 January 1932, Page 5

EPARATION POLICY

I (British Official Wireless

llTISH CABINET COMMITTEE I MEETS TO CONSIDER | POSITION Inco-german differences

j RUGBY, Thursday. ihe Cabinet Committee set up to iider the question of reparations, iiew of the forthcoming conferi at Lausanne, met to-day. lr. Neville, Chamberlain, Chanir of the Exchequer, Sir John Rn, Secretary of State for For- ■ Affairs, and Viscount Snowden, K Privy Seal, attended. Sir F. W. Ih-Ross, Deputy-Controiler of ■lice H.jVL Treasury, who is reBng to Paris on Friday to resume pxchange of views on the subject Bthe experts of the French MinK of Finance, was also present. ipropos the meeting of the CabE Committee the "Daily Teleph's" diplomatie correspondent Bs: "At the moment neither LonI Paris nor Berlin has definitely ■e up its mind concerning details ■ie reparation policy, but the proit of a preliminary Anglo-French iement is good. iThe chief outstanding difficulty is ilength of the moratorium, which ild be granted Germany. London iurs four or five years, and Paris [ A compromise at three years ikely, but Germany will be very Erom satisfied with this, or indeed I any plan 'assuming the resump1 of the payment of reparations. Ip is an unbridgeable gulf begm the French and German standIts. ■n the meantime some anxiety is iin British circles ' lest France pld seek a postponment of the reitions conference to a time which Bd interfere with the disarmpit conference at Geneva." me British delegation to the re■tloris conference will consis't of jNeVille Chamberlain. Sir John ph and Mr. Runciman (President ihe Board of Trade), while Mr. Rsay MacDonald or Mr. Stanley ■win will be present part of the