THE NAVAL CONFERENCE.

Waikato Times, Volume 107, Issue 17979, 26 March 1930, Page 6

THE NAVAL CONFERENCE.

AN OLIVE BRANCH. EXTENDED BY FRANCE. M. BRIA'ND RETURNS TO LONDON. United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel.— Copyright. * (Received March 26, 2.0 p.m.) LONDON, March 25. Though the adjournment proposal is condemned completely, both in French Foreign Office and in the Paris press, the view is being held that a Franco-Italian agreement is as unlikely six months hence as now. The American delegation to-night insisted that more progress was being made in the direction of a Five-Power agreement than has yet appeared outwardly. , , M. Briand has definitely decided to return to London to-morrow, and this is construed as an olive branch towards Britain. PARIS, March 20. In- a speech dealing with the Conference, M. Briand said that France must not allow .criticism representing her as an obstacle to an agreement to turn her aside from her national preoccupations about security, but the London negotiations had in nowise ended, and he did not despair of an ultimate solution, though hitherto he had been unable to obtain what France wanted. As long as all nations were not prepared to accept a legal solution for their quarrels, mutual organisation for security was necessary. France was not asking security in her own interests, but a mutual general organisation useful to everyone. Her policy was in nowise based on oldfashioned alliances, but mutual guarantees against a common danger.