Oct. 5, Mr. Austen Chamberlain, disjeussing with journalists the' prospects of the Security Conference, said that, if the foundations of peace could not be laid in such heavenly spot as Locarno, pei must have flown from earth, The present conference, he said, was different from most of the meetings between Germany and the Allies, Nobody had come to Locarno to impose conditions or make demands. They had all come as representatives of free and equal vations to seek a solution of their difficulties. "He hoped they would succeed. The representatives of the British Government very sincerely desired to let the dead past bury the past and to think only how the future could be made better than the past and a repetition of past horrors avoided. He was convinced that the delegations of the other nations were animated by a similar desire.
Asked regarding his views concerning the negotiations of Comrade Chicherin with the German Govern-meat, Mr. Chamberlain said that he was satisfied with Dr. Stresemann's statement in that connexion.
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