PROGRESS OF WORLD CONFERENCE
PACE BEGINNING TO TELL
LONG SESSIONS AND SOCIAL ENGAGEMENTS • , ■ _ . POOR ATTENDANCE AT RESUMPTION MR. BENNETT PRESENTS CASE FOR CANADA (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—-Copyright^ ' . ' , (Received June 16,. 9 a.m.) ' ; LONDON, June,ls, ;Thepace of the World '.Conference is beginning to tell on delegates. Long sessions, unofficial meetings, and nightly social . engagements resulted in barely a hundred being present at the opening of the session today. The speech of the Portuguese dele-' gate, Senhor Damatta,* failed to arouse interest, but the attendance vjas large, including Messrs. Forbes and. Masters, when Mr. T. V. Soong (China) spoke. Mr. Bruce is not participating in the main . debate, reserving the Australian case for the.committees. x The Conference heard a vigorous speech from Mr. .R. B. Bennett (Canada), who in his first definite disclosure of Canada's , wheat policy came out strongly for a curtailment of acreage pari passu, and a concerted effort of importing/countries to enlarge their demand instead, as hitherto, aggravating the fall of price by defensive tariff increases. ' . ■ ■ . •' ' ■ ' ■ ■ ' There is suggestion iif the lobbies . that Argentina' will 'be ~ i amongst the restrictionists.- ". '....•■
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 140, 16 June 1933, Page 7
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