15 FEBRUARY 1935, Page 6

Sir John Simon, by the way, explained in the House

on Wednesday what he meant by a phrase which perplexed me last week regarding "misleading statements about the official communique" issued after the Anglo-French conversations on February 3rd. He was apparently referring to an inaccurate anticipation of the communique issued by Haves the night before—not to statements made after the communiques issue.