BRITAIN AND FRANCE.

Taranaki Daily News, 30 November 1921, Page 5

BRITAIN AND FRANCE.

NEWSPAPERi! VERY BITTER. OVER FLNAWE MATTERS. By Telegraph.—i*riss Assn. —Copyright. Paris, Nov. 28. Senator Jouvenal, editor of the Malin, in an article, blames Mr. Lloyd George’s selfish policy for the upset of the exchanges. M. Jouvenal asks whether he is looking for salvation in a new reduction of the German debt. The diplomatic offensives of the British Government are being renewed too often not tc destroy our confidence. France in ne way seeks to separate her cause froir Britain, but she refuses to Jose hei cause to accommodate Mr. Lloyd Georgs and Lord Curzon. The Petit Journal declares that tke Washington Conference has stopped at the first resolution and the discussiot of the naval truce has been completely suspended. Evilly disposed minds even suggest that the British Government, tinder pressure of high finance, i* endeavoring to modify the gait of the conference. Curzon’s speech is merely a smoke screen behind which the British dreadnoughts are retiring to their bases, ff this is so the conference cannot fully continue its work until there has been a frank and full discussion between Paris and London, and perhaps Rome. Both the Matin and the Journal declare that the time has come for a frank explanation, not between Mr. Lloyd George and M. Briand, but be-' tween the Parliaments of the two countries, in which both countries should clearly define their policies. Advices say that Britain sent a Nott to France asking, by what means France proposes to safeguard Germany’s othe: creditors if the Wiesbaden agreemen! of October 21 is enforced, declaring that Britain views with concern France’s delay in ratifying the financial convention of August 30. ’ A PLEA FOR REASON. QUARREL SHOULD BE ENDED. Received Nov. 29, 8.20 p.m. Paris, Nov. 28. L’Homme Libre, discussing the AngloFrench position, says: "Let us cease this child's display regarding which country shall be supreme in the East. It is quite time M. Briand returned to take the whole matter in hand and spoke to Mr. Lloyd George, and they should wipe out the memory of this quarrel as soon as possible. It has already cost us, through the British Press campaign, Lord Curzon’s speech, part of the enormous effect which M. Briand’s speech produced at the Washington Conference, and it may cost also the indispensible help of England in difficulties that may arise between Germany and ourselves in the near future regarding reparations. Let us be practical and not lose a substance for a shadow?