OPENING ARRANGEMENTS

Grey River Argus, 12 June 1933, Page 5

OPENING ARRANGEMENTS

Address By The King , DELEGATES ARRIVING. (Conference Special.) (Received Jun' 1 11 at 7.15 p.m ) LONDON, June 10. With brief but fitting ceremony His Majesty, King George V, to-day opens ihe World Economic Conference, in which the hopes control are almost t”o ambitious for fulfilment. This is th« • twenty-fifth international conference since thp war, and the Empire’s capital has risen to the occasion and placed a handsome n 1 u building, the Geological Museum. at South Kensington, at the disposal of the gathering, and has adapted it to the special requirements It has d< vised every conceivable facility for communication between the delegates of sixtv or more nations The King arrives at the Conference I at 3.30 o’clock in the aft'rnoon, an

will address 168 de’egates from a green I and gold dias, standing before the gold I microphone plate, on which are the’ records of Lach time it has been used. This ‘will In. the fourth time. Thorp will then be an interval while His Majesty departs. Mr MacDonald wi'l speak next (in I is det'‘rmined to set the example for brevity. Thereafter the formal business r the Conference will bo transacted, con corning the credentials of delegates, and thp future procedure Thu Conference is expected to last six weeks, though the possibility of a mid-summer adjournment may not bo overlooked. BAR OF WORLD’S DRINKS. Lon loners. whose own drinking hours arc restricted, are particularly interested in the long bar at which every drink in the world will be avoila bit* at any hour. Here, barmen speak in six languages and can serve anything from tin* Arrack of Arabia and 1 •h' Vodka of Russia to tin. homely | The social events include a ballet at | Coven! Garden Opera House, parties to many great houses, banquets in the , city, liv'rv companies’ garden parties and Government receptions Among the interesting delegate's is General Smuts, who has flown most of

the way from Capetown. Herr Dolfuss, Austria’s harassed (’hanr'llor also arrived by air and Herr Schacht arrived by air liner from Berlin. M. Litvinoff, whoso arrival was a mystery, as the Soviet Embassy on Friday night were without news as to wlii'ii he will arrive, while yes- !' rdav they wou’d only say. “He is here.’’

Mr Avenol the Secretary-General of the Conference, who will shortly succeed Air Drummond at Geneva, will have ;i n expert eye over all the arrangements. The King’s Speech BROADCASTING ARRANGEMENTS. ( Received .1 him* II at 8 p.m.) LONDON. June 10. Thp Geological Museum has become a virtual broadcasting house. A local control room has been established and includes a glass-walled observation post from which commentaries are given by microphones which have been installed. In the. Committee rooms, a special studio has been built to accomodate the delegates broadcasting summaries and eye-witnesses accounts to their own countries. There will bo several direct broadcasts to America. His Majesty’s speech will bo recorded for gramophone records, which will be sold for charities. Layton’s Outburst PROBLEMS TO BE FACED. (Received June 11 at 8 pm.) LONDON, June 10“Before the world, in the Economic Conference, is nationalism versus cooperation.’’ writ's Air Walter Layton in tin* “Chronicle’’ in an article emphasising that there are thirty million unemployed in the world; thirteen million tons of shipping more, than was submarined in th<-» Great AA T ar is idle; farmers are impoverished; budgets unbalanced despite heavy taxation. All being the symptoms of post-war.

The economic policy is attempting to reach prosperity independently, of and often at the expense of the remainder of the world. Unless the issue is solved in the right manner, progress is impossible in other dicctions. Even stabilisation of the currency with thp now international gold standard must ultimately break down unless freer trade* is permitted. The omens therefore at present are unfavourable. It delegates shrink from the courage-

ous road and continue national selfsufficiency they might as well go home immediately. No make-shifts or pious resolutions will resue the world from its present economic barbarism.