LONG DISCUSSION

Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 42, 18 August 1941, Page 7

LONG DISCUSSION

PRESIDENT AND MR.

HULL

"INFORMATION EXCHANGED"

LONDON, August 17. Diplomatic activity began in Washington today immediately President Roosevelt arrived back from his Atlantic conference with- Mr. Churchill. His first move was to hold a conference at the White House with Mr. Cordell Hull for nearly two and a half hours.

When he left the White House Mr. Hull told reporters that the conference was a general interchange of information, in which he and the President brought each other up to date on the international situation. They discussed all the phases in which either of them was interested, he added.

TO MEET CONGRESSIONAL • LEADERS.

j Tomorrow leaders of Congress will meet the President. It is believed that | they will discuss another lease and ! land appropriation of 10,000,000,000 dollars (about £2,500,000,000). This follows the hint at the President's conference yesterday that one of the first positive results of his Atlantic meeting with Mr. Churchill would probably be a request to Congress for a substantial supplement to the 7,000,000,000-dollar lend and lease fund,. which is now rapidly dwindling.

At his Press conference on board the yacht Potomac a reporter asked Mr. Roosevelt if he would give a radio "fire-side chat" on his talks with Mr. Churchill, to which the President r©» plied, "It is up to you fellows. If you can give the country a correct picture I need not go on the radio." . ;

According to one report, the President and Mr. Hull discussed the situation in the Far East.

Further American defence measures are seen in the fact that the United States is placing more commodities under export control, including wood pulp, machinery, vehicles, chemicals, and certain pharmaceutical products.