ELEVEN NATIONS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 84, 10 April 1933, Page 7

ELEVEN NATIONS.

INVITED TO AMERICA

Economic Internationalism, New Democratic Plan. HOOVER POLICY REVERSED. (United P.A.—Electric Telegraph—Copyright) (Received 1 p.m.) NEW YORK, April 9. Eleven nations have been invited by President Roosevelt to join in the Washington conversations.* In every case the President expressed a desire to talk with the chief of the Government if possible. Failing that, he asks for a trusted Minister.

It is announced from Paris that M. Herriot will participate, as representing France, in the international discussions at Washington.

In regard to Germany, the Chancellor, Hevr Hitler, was invited, but it is announced that the new German Ambassador, Dr. Hans Luther, will represent his country.

Definite word has been received in Washington that the World Economic Conference is to bo held in London about June.

The Washington correspondent of the "New York Times" states that at a conference with journalists yesterday the Secretary of State, Mr. Cordell Hull, propounded the Administration's new policy of economic internationalism in contrast with what he termed the economic nationalism of the past three Republican Presidents.

Mr. Hull said the Government now was prepared to meet the nations on the plane required by what he considered was a new age that called for just such proposals as were contained in the agenda of the World Economic Conference. He said the pending conversations with the invited representatives of 11 nations in Washington would strengthen the World Conference and not remove, in effect, that conference from London through the advance negotiations in America. The conversations would be with the respective representatives. There would be no general meetings, but perhaps a triangular conference between the representatives of America, Britain and France. Mr. Hull said the strangulation of .world trade represented an annual loss of six billion dollars. He believed the nations had tried the experiment of domestic policies long enough and had been "starved down" sufficiently, so they would be in a state of mind to listen to new proposals. The Minister predicted that the conversations in Washington would bring sharply to the attention of the peoples of the world the absolute necessity for the economic rehabilitation of the world. The first object sought would be a realisation by all the nations that it was suicidal to go on as they had been going, with each fenced off from the other to a maximum extent.

If all the nations, after careful analysis of what had happened during the past 10 or 12 years, should unanimously agree that they were all infinitely worse off, they ought to be able to decide upon a modification of the policy of extreme isolation.

Summarised, the whole purpose of the meetings in Washington was merely to collaborate and obtain the viewpoints of enlightened nations and, after a free interchange of information, impressions and ideas, to have them converge so that all could enter the World Conference with a definite idea in common. That, in Mr. Hull's opinion, would make the London proceedings much more orderly and systematic than they would be otherwise.