MOMENTOUS TALKS

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIII, Issue 104, 13 April 1933, Page 6

MOMENTOUS TALKS

BRITISH PREMIER'S VISIT TO WASHINGTON. NO TOPICS TO BE BARRED. LONDON, April 12. Mr A. E. Overton, of the Board of Trade and Sir Robert Vansittart and Sir Frederick Leith-Ross will accompany Mr MacDonald to Washington. No topics are barred from the Roose-velt-MacDonald conversations, says the “Telegraph’s’’ political correspondent. The major subjects will be finance, economic relations, debts, disarmament and the general situation of Europe, regarding which the aim of the British Government will be to prevent the alignment of the nations into two camps. The correspondent learned that the invitation to Mr MacDonald closed “Do come and spend the week-end with me. 1 am sure that in the weekend we can do more good than has been done for a long time.” There will be no attempt to make agreements, but Mr MacDonald hopes to reach understandings. FRANCE AND AMERICA. MOVE FOR CO-OPERATION. LONDON, April 12. With a view to closer co-operation between the two countries the British United Press Paris correspondent states that in the hope of turning public opinion in the United States more favourably towards France, the Government has decided to embark on an elaborate campaign of propaganda, which will be facilitated by agreement between the French official news agency and an American news organisation consisting of articles under famous French names, French films and ocean broadcasts by those who know the American mentality and the American women’s viewpoint, removing the causes why Franco is “so often taken for a tired, worn-out country.”