WHERE TO BE HELD?

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 77, 1 April 1933, Page 11

WHERE TO BE HELD?

ECONOMIC CONFERENCE

LONDON OR WASHINGTON?

PROS AND CONS

United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. NEW YORK, March 31. The French Government has informally suggested that the world Economic Conference bo held at Washington instead of London, states the Washington correspondent of the "New York Times."' It appears that the chief opposition to holding the Conference at Washington will be the British Prims Minister, Mr. J. Ramsay MacDonaM, and certain Democratic Congressmen. The former would naturally like the meetings to be held in London, where he could preside, «nd the latter for tactical reasons would like to go abroad. If the Conference failed at Washing- j ton it would be Mr. Roosevelt's failure. If it failed in Europe it would be the fault of "Continental polities." It is understood that many British statesmen, including Sir John Simon, believe that the Conference would have more chance of success at Washington, becauso of tho propaganda of certain American newspapers, who insist that European diplomats, when they meet Americans on foreign soil, "always victimise them by uudescribed subtleties." ;