WHEN NATIONS MEET

Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 182, 29 April 1933, Page 11

WHEN NATIONS MEET

New Building for Economic Conference MACDONALD’S OPTIMISM Official Wireless. Rugby, April 27. Plans for the holding of the World Economic Conference in June are already in hand. St. James’s Palace, where the Naval Conference and the second Round Table Conference were held, is deemed too small, and a handsome new building at South Kensington, recently erected as a Geological Museum, has been appropriated for the purpose. It is well adapted for the holding of a conference, having a main floor, which is being arranged as the conference room, 140 feet by .100 feet. Seats and desks for 170 delegates, and accommodation for nearly 200 journalists are being installed and oilices for delegates and staffs are being provided in a spacious gallery. The Rt. Hon. Ramsay MacDonald, Prime Minister, with other members of his mission was the guest last night at a dinner in New York, of the Pilgrims of the United States, and in his speech he pleaded for Anglo-American affectionate relationship and co-opera-tion toward constructive proposals at the World Economic Conference. Hopes for the success of that Conference have been greatly strengthened as the result of Washington conversations. which Mr. MacDonald states have been fruitful beyond expectations. Newspapers emphasise that no agreements committing other countries have been accepted in those talks, but there is a general recognition of the value arising from the closer iimlerstamling which has been established.