DITOR POWERS

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 274, 14 July 1932, Page 5

DITOR POWERS

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) george demands xflanation of lausanne acDONALD'S SPEECH , imsay MacDonald spoke ntnutes in presenting his t on Lausanne but .received an ovation wlien ],e spoke Iistlessly and at j0st incoherently. He was affected by his health. J George raised a storm by an explanation of the ecret agreement between tor powers, and was supp Mr. Winston Churchill, icellor, Mr. Neville Chamiade an explanation which the House.

RUGBY, Tuesday. ,or and gallex*ies in the Commons were full when aj- MacDonald, the Prime made his statement on the 5 at Lausanne. He was icei'cd on rising, and many nts won him vigorous apiPonald began by claixxiing ;oniVrence and its results to a settlement of those of n-narations whicb. lay > about the root of every trouMe that had overtajcen pince ihe war, which wai* ied national budgets and the centre of Europe a hose fmancial position was to ihe whole world. reparaiions lasted, there . no eomplete industrial tial difnculty at the coniras that Germany paid reand reparations only: Britcfin and others paid, received war debts; Ameived debts. Different Views 1 those three groups, quite •efuscfl to treat its contracations so as to mix itself he i>tis:iion of any of the ;n* von Papen stoutly deroughout to admit that the i wero any affair of his, shington said it eould not var debts from the viewt? (k-hiurs who were rccipjparations. Fortunately the leeelu's and other expresimerican public opinion to this: iurope decide on the best settlement for itself; let i its views, and we shall reasonabiy what is the ch America in equity can had n>'t agreed merely on laling down in reparations. antod an all-round cancelt'parations, war debts, etc. 1 not be obtained, but they degut o- to agree to one cafinal payment. ndustry's Chance dinir reparations, industry dven a chance of recovery. iavo r.ever received a repayment yet," the Prime said. "but you paid more itthan you got. The shrinlci yi-r.rs in the exports of the : trading nations liad been as jp.vat as the maximum ue last year." ntlemeii's Agreement iftance >f the "gentlemen's t" lu. 1 been publicly anon Fri iay. "VVithout it the elegatt s would bave been llt position. eraiov continued: "In dealhissmatter with America we ing a vt'i-y tender spot. No he right to blanie America [uphor attitude. "In view ievous results likely to folany "ggestion that EuromLIned simply to prosent in the nature of an ultithe United States I wish to icrfeet ly clear that all the ConiVionce did was to out the internal difficultopc- ara! agree on proposals ■ uati. >a there reprosented ssenti* i.