Show FRANCE READY TO TREAT WITH ITH lABOR PREMIER MacDonald's Letter to Poincare for Resumption of Relations Meets With I Favorable Reply I Lo LONDON r. mo-r. Jan SO PrIme Prime Min Mm- Minister I ister Ise MacDonald recently sent 0 a personal letter to Premier Poincare f In which which he expressed a 0 desire for tor fora fortz torD D a tz settlement of ot the difficulties be between between be- be tween Great Britain and France Franco and for fora a a. complete French Anglo-French understanding and Poincare re replied replied re- re plied sympathetically according to tota statements ta printed by the Dally Daily T Telegraph and the Daily Dally Express j By this action the new head of ot the British government picked u up Ui I Itile tile the thread of ot Franco-British Franco re relations re- re lations at at tho the point where It was broken hi after the Inter Interview between Mr B Baldwin Badwin and Premier la In Paris last autumn says sas the I I Dally Daily Telegraph It adds that the letter was In accordance with the British statesman's aver avet- sjon alon On to 10 the traditional methods of ot diplomacy and his hIr preference fo for fOJ direct means of ot negotiations T The Te o letter written as soon as Mr tr MacDonald was Installed In Downin Downing Down In ing street was delivered through Lord Crowe the British ambassador dot dog af at Paris It Informed M. M poin- poin cre that the Ule new government had been organized say the newspapers p pers rs and Vand remarked with perfect candor that relations between two c countries for several well well understood understood understood under under- stood reasons had ceased to be as friendly frendly as formerly and that public public pub pub- lic He opinion in Great Britain viewed the the French policy with a 0 ce certain taIn of ot suspicion being somewhat somewhat somewhat some some- what nervous about what might happ happen n in Europe Thet The h minister prime then ac- ac to the tho Daily Dally Telegraph ex expressed expressed ex- ex pressed a a. willingness to meet i Poincare re half halt way ay in an attempt to achIeve l a final complete and ana clear clr r settlement He lie also voiced theY the hope that the French government government government govern govern- ment in the the sanle same conciliatory spirit would be ready to discuss all an ll outstanding questions M. M I. I Poincare's answer asserts the thene ne newspaper was awaited with some somer anxiety r lest the approach should not have been well wen received But It seems that the answer was sympathetic sym sym- p pathetic t leUc giving rise to a hope for tor fora tora a better atmosphere for a a. discussIon discussion discus discus- sion slon of ot troublesome issues between th the th two nations I |