WORKING TOGETHER

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 845, 13 December 1929, Page 11

WORKING TOGETHER

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BRITAIN AND FRANCE MR. HENDERSON’S AIMS Seed. 1120 a.m. LONDON, Thursday. In proposing a toast to France at a dinner of the United Association of prance. Mr. Arthur Henderson, Foreign Secretary, referred to the Anglofrench relations. He related how misunderstanding began first to be cleared away by the Anglo-French Entente. This change gad been great y assisted by the institution of the League of Nations. All through the early years of the League it was the French and British nations which worked together to build it up. Differences of opinion made no difference to their fundamental co-opera-tion. Speaking of the forthcoming FivePower Naval Conference, Mr. Henderson recalled the following words, used by Mr. Ramsay MacDonald when he was Prime Minister in 1924, in a letter to M. Poincare, French Prime Minister: “The conditions of Europe can only, I feel convinced, be remedied by joint action between France and England, undertaken with full sympathy for their respective requirements and with wise regard for the interest i of the world at large. “It was for such co-operation that Britain had worked with France in 1924, that he was now prepared. The understanding which Mr. MacDonald happily had reached with the Presijent of the United States, did not mean that they would go to the conference with any rigid or cut-and-dried proposals.”