PALACE TOO SMALL.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 98, 28 April 1933, Page 7

PALACE TOO SMALL.

World Economic Conference to Meet in Museum. SOUTH KENSINGTON VENUE. (Received 12.30 p.m.) RUGBY, April 27. The plans for the World Economic Conference in London in June are already in hand. St. James' Palace is considered too small, and a handsome new building at South Kensington, recently erected as a geological museum, has been appropriated for the purpose. The main floor, which is to be the conference room, is 140 by 100 feet, with seats and desks for 170 delegates. Accommodation for 200 journalists is being installed, and offices for delegates and staffs aro being provided in the spacious gallery.

FAREWELL MESSAGE. MacDONALD SAILS FOR HOME. NEW YORK, April 27. Mr. Mac Donald, addressing the Pilgrims' Society last evening, expressed tho hope that tho United States and Britain would sit on tho same side of the table at the forthcoming .World Economic Conference in London. He said: "No greater blessing can come to tho nations of the world than that Britain and America should remain in affectionate relations." On tho other side of the table Mr. Mac Donald said he wanted "other enlightened nations—other nations that do appreciate their duty to the individual and with the courage, combined with reason, to face those problems and produce constructive proposals for overcoming them." Mr. Mac Donald counselled America to have patience and steadiness in solving tho world's problems, especially that of disarmament. "There is no reason why we should not see that victory during our lifetime," he said. While he was optimistic he emphasised that the time of tho ultimate solution of to-day's economic problems could not be predicted. Another war was inevitable "unless the nations use the opportunity of a militarist peace and create a spiritual peace. That is what we are engaged in trying to do at the present moment," he added. Mr. Mac Donald bade farewell to America amid a brilliant setting. He sailed for England by the Bcrengaria shortly before midnight.