NEW U.S.A. CABINET

Grey River Argus, 23 February 1933, Page 5

NEW U.S.A. CABINET

TWO SELECTIONS MADE Roosevelt’s Trade Revival Aims (Aus. & N.Z. Cable Assn). (Received February 22 at 7.40 p.m.) NEW YORK, February 21. The President-elect. Mr F. Roosevelt. ;o-night named Senator Cordell Hull, ef Tennessee, as Secretary of State, and Mr Wiliani Woodin, New York, as Secretary to the Treasury. The latter is a leading industrialist. A (veteran Congressman. Senator Hull, is recognised as an expert on taxation and tariff maters . He has always adhered to low tariff policies. He is thus qualicd .to negotiate the complicated tariff problems arising out of th.. Ottawa Conference with a view of implementing Mr Roosevelt’s thesis of a revival of world trade through tariff adjustments. Mr Woodin has accepted the Trca surv post after Senator Glass had declined.

What is Portended IMPORTANT CONFERENCES. TO BE AT WASHINGTON WASHINGTON. February 30. The information from New York to-day that Mr Roosevelt had announced the appointment of Senator Hull and Mr Woodin to the Democratic Cabinet, together with Mr Roosevelt s conferences with Mr R. Lindsay and M. Paul Claudel has led economic experts to predict that the ground work is being surveyed with a view to reaching important decisions on world economic questions concurrently with th,, debt negotiations.

According to .the present indications the conference at Washington will include only the principal nations inter ested in international trade, and so it will be the preliminary to the World Conference' As envisaged here, it will, in effect, constitute, using the League of Nations parlance, the Council ot the Economic Conference, while the meeting of 'the delegates of sixtyseven countries later will be the “As sembly. ”

The present preparations are being undertaken with the full consent of the Hoover Administration Departments. They are )compi;ling data which will be used. It is understood that during this week Sir R. Lindsay (Britain) and M Claudel (France) will start conversations with Senator Hull and other Roosevelt leaders.

Thus the coming Democratic Administration wil actually be functioning before the inauguration, Tho explanation of this unusual procedure is not forthcoming. There is a Tumour that the crisis in the Far East might be responsible for this desire to work with all possible speed. This is generally discounted. The most logical supposition is that Mr Roosevelt considers the world situation requires haste, and wishes to set machinery in operation as quickIvas possible in readiness for the special session of Congress, the date of which has tentatively been fixed for April.