TO HELP EUROPE.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 6 December 1924, Page 5

TO HELP EUROPE.

•AMERICA’S ATTITUDE. CONFERENCE PROPOSED. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT . NEW YORK, Dec. 4. ‘ President Coolidge, in addressing the Commercial Club in Chicago, said the United States wants to see Europe raised as far- as possible to the American economic standards.

“We have attempted to perform services for European nations because by that means in a broad way we are serving ourselves,” he continued. “We want to see in their prosperity an opportunity fc.r larger markets for our own productions. We wish to help them, moreover, because it is only through service that we can develop our individual and national Uves. It is along this course of action that we are most likely to contribute to those conditions which are the most effective in maintaining universal peace, and will make the largest contribution to the advancement of human welfare.

“My expectation is that we may hopefully approach the other great Powers for a further conference on this subject as soon as the carrying out of the present reparation plan, as an established and settled policy c,f Europe, creates a favourable opportunity. I do not wish to propose or have representatives attend a conference which contemplates commitments opposed t’o freedom of action, which we desire to maintain unimpaired. “ With regard to our purely domestic policies, the publication of income tax payments would be detrimental to public welfare. It is desirable to make a. change in tbe immigration law and to make its administrative features a little more humane, permitting those already here greater latitude in securing the admission of members of their families.”