MR. MACDONALD SUMS UP

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 106, 8 May 1933, Page 7

MR. MACDONALD SUMS UP

WASHINGTON TALKS

IMPORTANCE OF WAR DEBTS

SETTLEMENT ESSENTIAL

(British Official Wireless.) (Received May 8, 11 a.m.) ■ RUGBY, May 6. In a broadcast speech last night, the British Prime Minister (Mr. Ramsay Mac Donald) summed up the results of his Washington conversations with President Roosevelt as follows:— A final decision to open the International Conference on June 12. A preliminary mutual examination of the causes of the world crisis and the means of overcoming them, so that they might co-operate together and with other nations in procuring good results from the Conference.; A personal exchange of information regarding war debts, and an agreement that on their settlement depends the success of the work of the Economic Conference. "As we both pledged ourselves to leave no stone unturned to make that Conference a success, this agreement implies that we are to use every means in our power to find a way to settle those debts." , An understanding of how to cooperate in trying to bring the Disarmament Conference to a successful issue. An improvement generally in the friendly relations and mutual esteem of Britain and the United States,5 so that the influences making for peace* confidence, and appeasement in the world had been undoubtedly strengthened. '