HEALTH NOT IMPAIRED

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 799, 21 October 1929, Page 11

HEALTH NOT IMPAIRED

CANADIAN AIR BENEFITS MR. MACDONALD GOING HOME SOON British Official "Wireless Reed. Noon. RUGBY, Sunday. Reports that Mr. Ramsay Mac Don been impaired by the strain of his tour are completely without foundation. Although the programme has resulted in normal strain, the worst part is past and trips in the Canadian air are having a refreshing effect upon him. He will return to England at the end of the present month or in the first days of November, and is looking forward to meeting the House of Commons soon after it reassembles. When he returns he will also begin conversations upon next January’s naval conference with France, Italy and Japan. As he stated in his speech at a dinner in the Ottawa House of Parliament, he desires these to be conducted „in the same frank, free and open way that had characterised the Anglo-American conversations.” The announcement that France and Italy are to try and secure a preliminary understanding between themselves is warmly welcomed by Mr. MacDonald, who believes such an understanding would help immensely tow’ard the success of the January conference.

In Press interviews Mr. MacDonald lias again emphasised that in his conversations with President Hoover nothing in regard to naval questions took place which was binding upou either Britain or the United States. Whatever is binding will be decided at the five-Power conference in London next January. All he claims to have accomplished is to have helped create an atmosphere of goodwill and to have found President Hoover in complete agreement that there shall be no Anglo-American naval rivalry.