MacDONALD CHOSEN.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 21, 26 January 1933, Page 7

MacDONALD CHOSEN.

Chairman of World Economic

Conference,

DATE NOT FIXED. (British Official Wireless.) (Received 12.30 p.m.) RUGBY, January 25. Decisions on the questions which should form the agenda of the World Economic Conference, in which many other States are concerned, naturally cannot be reached before discussions have taken place at a conference between the States represented there. Tlio British Foreign Secretary, Sir John Simon, arrived at Geneva and presided at a meeting of the Commission for the Organisation of the World Economic and Monetary Conference, which is to meet in London. The commission decided to adjourn for three months and, on resuming, to fix the date of the London conference.

On the proposition of the French delegates and seconded by the United States representatives, it was unanimously agreed that Mr. Ramsay Mac Donald, Prime Minister of Britain, should be asked to be president of the conference.

The Prime Minister of Canada, Mr. li. B. Bennett, stated at Hamilton, Ontario, last evening that he would attend the World Economic Conference. With the success of the Empire trade agreements on the lips of the world, he said, hope and confidence rang forth for the conference.