WAR DEBT QUERY IN CONGRESS.

Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20772, 4 February 1933, Page 15

WAR DEBT QUERY IN CONGRESS.

DEBT NEGOTIATOR? A MYSTERIOUS AGENT. SENATOR'S DEMAND FOR APPREHENSION. (UNITED MESS ASSOCIATION— BY EI.KCTBIC TELEORArH—COPYRIGHT.) (Received February .'!, 5.5 p.m.) WASHINGTON, February ->. Another foreign debts debate ' broke out in the Senate to-day, with Senator A. R. Robinson (Rebublican, Indiana) demanding that the State Department shall apprehend, under the Logan Act, Mr William ('. Bullitt, who has been reported to be negotiating on debts abroad. "Judging from press accounts, Mr Bullitt's visits to Berlin, Loudon, and Paris are supposed to bo in connexion with war debts," Senator Ilobinson said. "Mr Bullitt is making a laughing stock of the American people, and it is high time the American Government asserts who he is. He is going about in disguise, and when iiot in disguiso is going under an assumed name. He seems to have no credentials." [Mr William C. Bullitt, formerly a prominent newspaperman, was attache to the American Commission to Negotiate Peace, 19.18-19. He was also until recently managing-editor for the Play-ers-Lnsky Film Corporation.! BRITISH POLICY AWAITS AMBASSADOR.

AMERICAN VIEW OF SPEECH BY CHANCELLOR. WASHINGTON, February 2. Tho disposition in many Washington quarters to-day was to regard the ."no swapping" statement of Mr Neville Chamborluin (Chancellor of the Exchequer) as the view of jci; Cabinet member, whieh is not definitely indicative of the final position Great Britain will Assume. What Sir Ronald Lindsay (British Ambassador) has to say to the Government is likely to carry the greatest weighc in formulating the British policy, it 's thought.