Paris, Aug. 25, A. somewhat cool reception accorded a speech by Herr Lot the President of the Reichstag, who heads an important German delegation including ex-Chancellor. Wirth, to-day at the twenty-fourth confer-fence of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (a precursor of the League. of, Nations), 'The conference is meeting at the Senate under the' presidency of 4M, Doumer, President of the Senate, to debate on world polities: and discuss a European tariff entente;-re= duction of armaments, an anti-drug'. campaign and the codification of international lay. cannot resist the temptation of referring to that burning topic, the occupation of the Rhineland,' said Herr Loebe, He suggested: that. France would serve the cause of humanity by telling Germany that not ® single French soldier would remain on German sell from January 1, 1928, Mr, Takabe, a Japanese delegate, deftly steered the conference from the trough of practical polities to the calm waters of generalities, preaching reform in Parliamentary methods.
Later, A Franco-German duel seems to be developing in. the Inter-Paxliamentary Union Conference, Replying later to Herr Loebe, Henry de Jouvenel declared that the military occupation of the Rhineland was the sole guarantee of stability in Eastern Europe, ing that "when one has been Adversary so long it is better to go slowly about knitting tes of friend ship rather than risk fresh—ruptures."—Reuter,
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