London, Nov, 25.
Suggestions that Herr Adolf Hitler presented Lord Halifax with a set of demands. when the Lord President of the Council visited the Fuehrer during his recent trip to Germany are ridiculed in official British and German quarters in London.
British circles state that the meeting was in the nature of an informal talk but there was no question of negotiations or bargaining on either side. Rumours of a change in British policy towards Germany are also denied here. Although the easing of Anglo-German trade relations will be welcome. the approach to Ger many along economic lines is only cne of many.
Assurance that there was no foundation in the statement ti the Governmeni was considering giving Germany a free hand in Austria and Czechoslovakia in exchange for an assurance that Germany would not make any colonial demands for six ars, was sought by Mr. Geoffrey Mander, Opposition Liberal member for East Wolverhampton. in the House of Commons yesterday.
The Speaker, Capt. Edward Fitz roy, intervened.
After the Prime Minister, Mr Neville Chamberlain. had announced n the House of Commons at ques. ton time yesterday that the French Prime Minist Camille Chautemps and the Foreign Minister, M. Yvon Delbos, had accepted ihe tation from His Majesty's Government to visit London next Monday and Tuesday for an exchange of views on the international situation vith himself and Mr. Eden. he was shed if the Government would consider an interchange of ministerial visits with Prague and Moscow. Mr.
Chamberland replied in the negative. reminding the House that Mr. Eden had recently met Dr. Milan Modza, ihe President of Czechoslovakia, in London and also M. Maxim Litvinoff. the Soviet Foreign Commissar. Brussels, EaMier a question addressed to the Foreign Secretary referred to the postponed visit to London of the German Foreign Minister, Baron Konstantin von Neurath, and Mr Eden replied that mo arrangements for such a visit had been made.
While official quarters in Rome decline to comment, slight uneasiness kad been caused in certain quarters in Berlin by the news that the French Premier and the French Foreign Minister will visit London.
The German view has always been that France has never encouraged an improvement in Anglo-German re lations. It is hoped in Berlin. how ever, that the report of the conver sations which Lord Halifax had in Germany, which will be commun: leated to the French Ministers. will
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