DEBTS TO AMERICA

Hawera Star, Volume LII, 26 January 1933, Page 7

DEBTS TO AMERICA

INVITATION TO DISCUSSION

ACCEPTANCE BY BRITAIN VIEWS ON WAR PROBLEMS. EXCHANGE AYILL BE WELCOME. (British Official Wireless.) Received 12.40 p.m., to-clay. RUGBY, Jan. 25. Sir Ronald Lindsay, the British Ambassador to the United States, has handed Mr. H. L. Stimson, American Secretary of State, the message from the British Government to the Presi-dent-elect, Mr. F. D'. Roosevelt, stating. that the British Government will be happy to send representatives to Washington as soon as possible alter March 4. It will be glad to exchange views with Mr. Roosevelt on other world economic problems in which the governments are interested. It is stated that decisions on the questions which will form the agoiina at the world economic conference, and in which many other states are concerned, naturally cannot be reached before the discussions have taken place at the conference between the States represented there.

A British Official Wireless message of January 23 stated: A statement issued from No. 10 Downing Street today is, as follows: “Mr. H. L. Stimson, the American Secretary of ota..e, informed the British Ambas-sadoy on January 20 that the President-e ert Mr. F. D. Roosevelt, would be aad to receive representatives of the British Government at Washington eailj in March in order to discuss Binnli debts to the United States. Mr. Roosevelt wished it to be ucdersu-oixi that this discussion must he concurrent with and conditional on tne discussion of world economic problems and ' therefore representatives should also be sent to discuss methods of improving the world situation.