Hoover’s Next Move

Horowhenua Chronicle, 20 December 1932, Page 8

Hoover’s Next Move

CONGRESSIONAL OPPOSITION

UNALTERED Received Monday, 9.5 p.m.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 18

There was a possibility to-night that President Hoover might dispatch to Congress on Monday a, special message on the war debts renewing his recommendation for a commission to review the tangle of international financial obligations. The Secretary of . the Treasury, Mr. Ogden j&ills, and the President held a lengthy conference today at which they reviewed the debts communication.

The recommendation for a commission will undoubtedly meet with stiff Congressional opposition- Despite the hopes in some Administration quarters that the recent debt defaults might alter the temper on Capitol Hill, a re cent canvass showed there is little possibility of its adoption. Waiting for France to Move WASHINGTON, Dec. 18. It is understood President Hoover is now withholding his message to Congress on foreign affairs, hoping that the reorganised French Cabinet will reconsider France’s default which many observers believe likely. In a radio broadcast to-night, Mr, Julius Klein, Assistanf-Secretary of Commerce, and considered to be President Hoover’s spokesman, declared that discussion on debts and tariffs at the World Conference, inevitably reversing the earlier Administration stand, must be kept off the agenda. He also implied that co-operation with Mr ; Roosevelt would be sought in the formation of the preliminary American policy. •