NEW EUROPE.

Taranaki Daily News, 10 February 1922, Page 5

NEW EUROPE.

. MEETING OF NATIONS. DELAY SUGGESTED. MOVE BY FRANCE. By Telegraph.—Press Assn. —Copyright. Received Feb. 9, 10 p.m. London, Feb. 9. The Morning Post states the French plan for the postponement of the Genoa Conference is being pressed energeticalr ly. There are two obvious grounds for this.

First, there is considerable vagueness respecting the conditions under which the Bolsheviks will be summoned to the conference, and the French desire to confer with other nations attending. The second ground is that the border States of Finland, Latvia, Esthonia, Lithuania, Poland and Roumania, who are deeply concerned in Europe’s economic reconstruction, and whose presence at Genoa is essential to the problems which will come before the conference, are anxious that their position shall be assured against Bolshevik encroachment.

The paper says it is not surprising that the French desire three months’ postponement of the confereu?-. The British attitude in regard to this has not yet been determined by Cabinet.— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

PREPARATIONS PROCEEDING. London, Feb. 8. The Morning Post says persistent rumors are circulating in several foreign capitals that the postponement of the Genoa conference has become inevitable. On the contrary all news from Italy tends to show that preparations are being pushed forward in order to enable the delegates to meet on the date fixed and the British arrangments are also proceeding on the assumption that the conference will open on March 8.

It had been hoped in British official circles that the Anglo-French pact might be concluded before the Genoa conference opens, because of the impression which would be made on the Eastern nations if France and Britain appeared with a united aim.