WAR DEBTS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 196, 21 August 1933, Page 3

WAR DEBTS.

BRITAIN'S CASE

AMERICANS' RECOGNITION. TRANCE TJNPOPUXAR. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.)* WELLINGTON, this day. Mr. T. C. List, of New Plymouth, Governor of Rotary in New Zealand, returned by the Maunganui after attending the Rotary governors' congress at Portland Springs, Maine, and the international convention at Boston. "There is not the same importance attached to the question of the Allied Debts in America as is the case in England," said Mr. List. "In Great Britain the question is regarded as paramount, and as having a bearing on every other question. In America: it occupies only a minor place in the minds of the people. They have so many other and more pressing things on. hand that they barely give it attention."

Mr. List said that some rearrangement oi' readjustment of the British debt would need to be made before long, and that fact was generally recognised in the United States, where the British attitude was quite appreciated, in contradistinction to that of France, which was never more unpopular in the United States than at present.