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Grey River Argus, 15 June 1933, Page 5

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America’s Bid for Chair NEUTRAL SELECTION PROBABLE. (Received June 14 at 9 p.m.) LONDON, June 14. A conference at which delegates did not want to speak is somewhat of a novelty, but yesterday’s renunciations means the speedy winding up of the general debate and the early appointment of two main commissions—monetary and economic. The French delegates are advocating for a third commission to deal with the questions of production and labour. The American delegation strongly desires to secure the chairmanship of the monetary commission, but the claim is opposed by the majority of both the great and smaller powers, among whom the unchecked depreciation of the dollar has aroused criticism. Probably a neutral chairman will be v-hosen. The conversations continue between j the British and French bankers and . the Treasury exports. REAL WORK BEGINS FRIDAY. LONDON. June 33. Although thp afternoon session of the Conference was timed to end (it six o’clock it. lapsed an hour earlier, no speakers being available. A contributory reason was the all-day distraction through the Anglo-American debt negotiations, which inevitably precipitated themselves into the at mosph<*re of the Conferoni'e from which Mr Hi.II was an absentee. Many deb-gatos preferred to go to the Commons to hear Mr (’hamberlnin’s statemuni. It was not surprising when Mr MacDonald announced that nobody was ready to continue the debate. It is an open secret that Air Hull is re-i!rafting his speech in the light of tin* war debts nogotiat ions, and also the outspoken references thereto in most of the speeches. It is fairly certain that specific subjects will be referred to commissions on Friday, when the real work of the Conference will begin. General Smuts’s suggestion to leave- economies wholly Io experts is not finding favour with politicians, who assort (hat they always, in the long run, have to <-ut the knot to save the experts debating intermi nobly. Count Ishii left no doubt that lower tariffs are an essential condition of Japan’s willing co-operation, a sentiment which disturbed other manufacturing countries.

CANADA’S PRIME MINISTER. LONDON, June 13. Mr Bennett Pol l a journalist that the World and Ottawa Conferences v. ere not related, except in that “the latter reached agreement. Let us hope we shall agree hero.” “Important questions at the Conference were the use of silver <as an altcrnativu to gold, and stabilisation. Failing stabilisation, it becomes almost impossible to transact international business. Canada, has come here in here own interests. So far as wo arc concerned, there is a common plan. If is impossible for any statesman to speak on behalf of the whole Empire.’’ ho said.