The New York herald., 1922-04-29

lining mp Scandinavia, Switzerland,
spain and the Little Entente with
The French. apparently against pos
sibie settlement.
French Make Concessions.
The result of this would have been
"a let the conference as a whole fail,
SO far as Russia is concerned, leaving
England and Italy TO go on making
separate arrangements for trade in
Russia from Baltic and Black Sea
ports. respectively, The prospect of
sacE commercial isolation apparently
appealed just as little to the French
delegation as the prospect of political
isolation IN other matters; and while
The English are reported to have made
substantial concession TO the French
point of view, the French rave made
concessions. too. Na&
1t was this situation that Mr.. Lloyd
Georges statement tonight. that the
final draft would not depart from the
Cannes resolution, was designed to
cover, Mr.. Lloyd George also used the
cannes paper cleverly wnen NJ. Bar-
thou asked leave to make personal
statement.
There are many rumors that ! am
going 10 leave Genoa--going to leave
The conference Nj. Barthou said. 1T
is entirely untrue that ] am leaving
the conference. 1t is quite uncertain
that shall even, leave Genoa: but IL
] do | promise that the French delega-
tion shall be left in shape to continue
the negotiations"
Mr., Lloyd George then thanked NJ.
Rarthop for his statement. II hope
YOU will not have to go. not only be-
Of alttA ,F "a mn
and the Inconvenience to the negotia
tions that would be caused by your b.
sence but because the absence of the
head OF the French delegation in the
course of another important interna-
iional negotiation proved most regret
fabIe,u
The reference was clearly TO Briand's $
leaving the Cannes conference, and the
intimation ~obvious.s.ir view of the
subsequent fall OF the BRAND Govern
ment, that the absence of M.s Barthou
would be more regrettab1e than that oi
Premier BRAND at Cannes
Agreement Is Expected.
The fact that both the Belg:ans. with
former Premier -DelacEoix,. and the neu-
trails, with former President Motta OF
Switzerland, are represented on rtht
drafting commission, with Sir PhiliI
Iloyd-Greame for the British. Camille
Parrere. French Ambassador to Rome
and the Italian expert, Sci;.loija indf
ca tess that the other drafts OF de
niands upon Russia also viii be ANAL
sanated with the Anslo-French terms.
Sir Edward Griggs. discussing the
British and French views tonight. said
they were not divergent, but compile
mentarv, France reating the problems
from the point OF view of an agricul.
tursl nation, and England from thai
Of an industrial nation. He insisted
that the two would easily combine into
cogent whole. Tr &
In the meantime the Russians. al,
though apparently aware of what il
Ding on in the subcommission. show
perturbation. and reiterate their de-
termina ton not to leave the conference
they cannot accept the demands when
they are submitted They smile and
snrug their shoulders when they are
asked what they will do il the con-
ference should leave them.
The Germans also are sitting tight
and saying nothing. but obviously they
are happy at the prospect of repara-
ton being discussed in big meeting
here. Z even though they are to have
no part in it. They feel that French
irreconciIablity will be more watered
down here. than it could be in Paris.