MARKING TIME

Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 275, 16 August 1932, Page 9

MARKING TIME

World Trade Conditions U.S. AWAITS ELECTION. Co-operation Will Follow Dominion Special Service. Auckland, August 15. A suggestion that the forthcoming presidential elections in the United States would have a pronounced influence on world affairs, was made by Mr. J. K. Caldwell, who passed through Auckland by the Monterey on his way to Sydney, where he will take up the appointment of United States ConsulGeneral in Australia. In spite of the continued trade depression, he said, there was a growing spirit of optimism among the people, but in effect the entire country was marking time and waiting for a clearing of the political atmosphere. “There are a number of important questions which require international action if world conditions are to improve,” Mr. Caldwell said. “Once the Presidential elections are over the United States will be free to co-operate with other countries in an effort to find a way out of their mutual difficulties." Mr. Caldwell has been in the United States Foreign Service for 25 years, and has spejit most of ■ his time in the Orient For some years he was aiisistanf'Chief of the Division of FarEastern Affairs, and he has been stationed at Singapore and in China and Japan. During the war he was at Vladivostok.