ROOSEVELT MESSAGE

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 120, 24 May 1933, Page 9

ROOSEVELT MESSAGE

HIGHEST IMPORTANCE

1 FURTHERING THE AIM

SUCCESS OF CONFERENCES

(Bulisli omdal Wireless.) - (Received May. 24, 11 a.m.) RUGBY, May 23. The British Ambassador at Washington (Sir Ronald Lindsay) today delivered the following reply to President Roosevelt's recent message: "His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom have read with much appreciation the message which the President of the United • States addressed on May 16 to the heads of all countries participating in the Disarmament and Economic Conference. His Majesty's Government feel that the action which Mr. Roosevelt has taken in addressing this message to the peoples of the -world is of the highest importance, and is well calculated to further the aim which his Majesty's Government has striven to secure, namely, the success of the two world conferences. "They entirely share the President's view that on. the-successful outcome bf these conferences, hang the future happiness and prosperity of the world. They are all the mpre encouraged by Mr. Roosevelt's message because the President places as the first step of his programme the adoption of the draft disarmament convention presented to the Disarmament Conference •by the Prime Minister on May 16 last. His Majesty's 'Government see in this' an earnest .of ' the intention •of .'the United States Government to collaborate at Geneva in pressing the general adoptibn of this draft convention as a whole. ', His Majesty's Government, believe, for 'their part that, if this' can be attained;, the result ' will be the restoration' of /confidence between nations of the world, and that. thus 'the" beat preparation will be made for.the vital decisions which the Monetary; and Economic Conference will be called upon to lake." Replies from.the Governments in the British Dominions have also been delivered to the President. ,