OUT OF HIS TURN

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 972, 15 May 1930, Page 11

OUT OF HIS TURN

MUSSOLINI’S SPEECH ROUSES FRANCE PRESS CALLS IT IMPROPER PARIS, Wednesday. Tlie speech made at Leghorn to a gathering of Fascists by the Prime Minister of Italy, Signor Mussolini, warning aggressors, has aroused a storm of resentment in the French Press, which emphasises its impropriety on the eve of the Geneva conversations.

TALKING THINGS OVER

EFFORTS TO RECONCILE - NATIONS FOREIGN MINISTERS MEET British Official 'Wireless Reed. 12.20 p.m. RUGBY. Wed. An informal luncheon-table discussion which took place at Geneva yesterday between Mr. Arthur Henderson, M. Briand and Signor Grandl is expected to be the first of a series of conversations in which the Foreign Ministers will try to settle the questions of the issue between France and Italy. Several newspapers here express the view that the Franco-Italian difficulties are mainly psychological and that with the strengthening of mutual confidence, specific difliculties would soon reach a solution. Britain is directly interested in the achievement of an agreement upon the

naval issue, but it is recognised that France and Italy might find this easier if political questions which have been outstanding in recent years were also allowed. The broadening of the conversations to include free and informal discussion of all outstanding political problems between the two countries is regarded by the British newspapers as a more hopeful method of creating an atmosphere favourable to definite agreements. Mr. Henderson is reported also to have discussed with M. Briand the question of the completion of the Rhineland evacuation. It is hoped this will be achieved by June -30, which was the date mentioned by the political I committee of The Hague Conference, over which Mr. Henderson presided.