In the House of Commons on Monday Sir Austen Cham-
. _ berlain unexpectedly announced that the Anglo-French conversations on disarmament in London had come to a successful conclusion. He would not describe the nature of the compromise, but the French Foreign Office has thrown some- light on the subject. The conversations date back to the deadlock last March of the Preparatory Disarmament Commission of the League. The draft Disarmament Convention was then temporarily aban- doned because no common ground for reckoning .naval and military strength could be discovered. The Govern- ments of the various Powers were invited to try to dis- cover some common ground outside the Commission, and the Anglo-French conversations were the result.