German Note Awaited

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 520, 24 November 1928, Page 9

German Note Awaited

REPARATIONS PARLEY

An Important Problem

(United P.A.—By Telegraph — Copyright) (Australian and N.Z. Press Association)

Received Noon. BERLIN, Friday. IT is understood that the Government is sending identical Notes to Britain and France, restating the German viewpoint on the Reparations Conference.

A London message says the “Morning Post’s” Paris correspondent learns that Sir William Tyrell, British Ambassador in France, is going to England and will spend the week-end at the Chequers with Mr. Baldwin. He purposes explaining the French views on Rhineland evacuation and reparations more clearly than It is possible in dispatches or by telegraph. He will also probably see Sir Austen Chamberlain, who is due from Canada on Sunday. The "Daily Telegraph’s” diplomatic correspondent understands that the German Government intends to make clear it cannot possibly acquiesce in the postulates laid down by the Powers with a view to safeguarding their interests in the final settlement, nor can it agree to restrict the freedom of the experts. It will urge that the latter should he free to make whatever recommendations they think fit, after an effective and impartial survey.

amiable discussion, and into a communion designed to help Europe as a whole to meet the future. No individual had contributed more to that than Sir Austen Chamberlain. The League of Nations had played its part in this. The statesmen of Europe had now become accustomed, in place of hurling despatches at one another across the frontier, to meet In friendly conversation. They hat learned by that that other nations had a point of view which was not only worthy in itself of consideration, but which must be considered if there was to be any possibility of agreement on outstanding questions. That might seem to those trained in business methods to be platitudin ous and elementary. It had taken the Great War to teach the statesmen of Europe that lesson. There was to-day in Europe a spirit of give-and-take which was absent before the war. To have eached such a state of things within ten years of the war was an achievement that held a hope of future betterment, amelioration, and happiness for the people of Europe.