POLAND & GERMANY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 May 1939, Page 5

POLAND & GERMANY

POPE SEEKING SOLUTION OF DISPUTE CONFERENCE PROPOSAL DENIED. RELIANCE ON DIPLOMATIC ACTION. (Received This Day, 10.40 a.m.) LONDON, May 9. Authoritative reports from European capitals confirm (that the Pope has been most active during the last ten clays in endeavouring to suggest a pacific settlement of international problems. The Vatican City correspondent of the British United Press says official circles confirmed reports that the Pope is trying to promote a solution of the German-Polish dispute, but deny that he suggested nr is considering a Five Power conference, pointing out that his Holiness thinks more can be achieved through diplomatic channels. The Holy See procedure in this connection is usually confined "to diplomatic persuasion and moral pressure,” though it is possible that the Pope may act as a mediator if the disputants requested it. LORD HALIFAX EARLY VISIT TO FRANCE. ON WAY TO GENEVA. (Received This Day, 9.25 a.m.) LONDON, May 9. Viscount Halifax will converse with M.M. Daladier and Bonnet when en route to a League Council meeting at Geneva on May 15. POLISH ATTITUDE LIKELY TO BE INFLUENCED BY VATICAN. BUT ANOTHER MUNICH NOT WANTED. (Received This Day, 10.40 a.m.) WARSAW, May 9. Well-informed circles point out that Poland, being strongly Catholic, would not sharply reject proposals from the Vatican, though it probably would want an understanding with England and France that any conference would not be similar to that at Munich.