The Archive · 1938

M, VAN ZEELAND'S TRIP POSTPONED

Visit to London Cancelled at Last Moment Brussels, Jan. 5.

M. Paul Van Zeeland, the former Prime Minister of Belgium. set out for London to-day, but returned to Brussel immediately after being handed an important communication as he boarded the boat for Dover.

His visit was understood to have been on the invitation of the British Governnient in connection with report. which he was completing after having inquired into the possibilities of improving world trade.

It is now stated that he will go to London on January 6, and that he has been invited to have luncheon with Mr. Neville Chamberlain. the British Prime Minister, on January 7.

M. Van Zeeland's report on world trade problems will be published simultaneously in London. Paris and Brussels, possibly next week.—Reuter.

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