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Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 87, 13 April 1933, Page 7

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AMERICAN PARLEYS. MORE INVITATIONS. 24 Small Nations Now Asked to Exchange Views. REMOVE DISSATISFACTION. (United P.A.—Electric Telegraph-Copyright.) (Received 10.30 a.m.) WASHINGTON, April 12. The State Department to-day announced that Notes had been sent to all nations having diplomatic missions in Washington, Avhich were not invited to send special representatives to President Roosevelt's conversations, invitjng them to exchange views through diplomatic channels.

This action followed reports of dissatisfaction among some countries which were not among the 11 picked for special invitations.

Notes were sent to 2-4 diplomatic missions in Washington, inviting their nations to exchange views on the broad aspccts of the general economic conference and armaments limitation. Each of these Avas accompanied by a personal Note from Mr. Cordcll Hull, Secretary of State, referring to the apparent impossibility of all nations sending special representatives because of the lack of time. Japan on Wednesday rormally accepted the invitation from President Roosovelt to send a leading statesman to the conversations in Washington. Distinguished British Delegation. Mr. A. E. Overton, of the Board of Trade, Sir Robert Vansittart, Permanent Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs;' and Sir Frederick Leith-Ross, Economic Advise* to the Government, will accompany the Prime Minister, Mr. Mac Donald, to Washington. "No topics are to be barred from the conversations between President Roosevelt and Mr. Mac Donald," says the "Daily Telegraph" political correspondent. "The major subjects will be finance, economic relations, war debts, disarmament and tho general situation in Europe. In the last-named connection the aim of the British Government will be to prevent an alignment of nations into two camps." The correspondent says he learns that the invitation to Mr. Mac Donald to go to Washington closed with tho words: "Do couie and -spend a week-end with me. lam sure that in the week-end we can do more for the good of the world than has been done for a long time." There will be no attempt to make agreements, but Mr. Mac Donald hopes to reach an understanding with a view to closer co-operation between the two countries. French Propaganda Plan. The Paris representative of the British United Press says that in the hope of turning public opinion in the United States more favourably toward France the Government has decided to embark upon an elaborate campaign of propaganda which will be facilitated by an agreement between the French official news agency and an American news organisation. The propaganda will consist of articles under famous French. names, French films and ocean broadcasts by those who know American mentality and American women's point of view. Thus it is hoped to remove the causes of France being so often taken for a "tired, wornout country."