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Show SAVE ENTENTE, PREMIERS' AIM I HAND MEETS I LLOYD GEORGE I IN CONFERENCE I Premiers Work to Prevent .' Economic Disintegration I'' of Europe Ev PROGRAM LAID OUT 1 Franco -British Alliance p Plans Hindered By Sub- marine Sentiment it CANNES, France, Jan 4. fBy lh Associated Press.) To save Europe from complete economic dislntegra-'Ion dislntegra-'Ion and keep the entente from falling apart are the big tasks to be under- taken here b- Premiers Lloyd Ceorg'i JR. of Great Britain and Briand ol France. mjf Opening private conversations today soon after tho arrival from Paris of mp' M. Briand and the minister of liber- ated regions. Douehcur, the two p e- miers began to lay out the program for the allied supreme council whicj) convenes here Friday Tho arriving delegates were greeted by a mild snow We' storm. jH I Lloyd George Intends that this sha'.l ijfc' I be the last meeting of the supreme ' council if there in any way of bring-ing bring-ing pending questions to a point ! where they can thereafter be dealt i w ith by tho ambassodors of the allied Vh' powers. I M. Briand Is understood aiao to fa- w? I vor adoption of a broad understand- Jl ing Experts rogaid n? an encouraging J sign the progress made by tho Brit- ', ish project for organization of an in- j. ternatlonal financial corporation lo ft. deal with credits and exchange and impossibly im-possibly currency. This question, as I well as that of reparations, will be discussed by Lloyd George and Briand f -!n their private talks. TJiero is strong I expectation that approval of tho draft H project adopted at Paris will be on ; of the earliest resolutions of the con-ferenpe. con-ferenpe. ; The two premiers were well guard- L; ed from Interruptions as they began P their conversations. fr. The train that brought M. Briand fv also enrriod copies of the newspaper H containing tho French premier's dec- I la ration regarding an alliance between It J- ranee and England, quoting hjm ,s I declaring it tho best solution of the p European problem. ij- Pear was expressed, however, in H Unofficial British circles, that tho prospects of such an alliance had boon compromised by the effect on British public opinion of France's po-Bitlon po-Bitlon on the submarine question. Tho arrlral of Lord Curzon. Brit- H ih ecretary for foreign affairs, was j pe n s ra ) I v believed to mean thai H trary to expectations, the British ob- I Jections to the Angora treaty between iH France and the Turkish Nationalists IH would bo discussed here. H |