PRIZE DEBT STORY

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17954, 5 December 1932, Page 5

PRIZE DEBT STORY

MR. GARNER’S ATTITUDE HAS NOT READ NOTE TOO CONCERNED WITH BEER (Received Dec. 5, noon.) NEW YORK, Dec. 4. The prize story about the war debt negotiations developed to-day in a conversation a Sun Service representative had with Mr. Garner. This eminent Texas statesman reiterated what he had said to Mr. Hoover recently, adding: “I still think the same way.” Then he continued: “But you know I have not read this latest note from Britain; I haven’t had time, I’ve been too busy with beer.” Mr. Garner in this matter has more power than tlio President. He will lie boss of the Congress in the coming “lame-duck” session. Next year he will be vice-president and presiding officer in the Senate. One, of the greatest documents in diplomatic history had passed and he would not take the trouble to read it. Yet he is ready to jump into the front column of the American press with a positive declaration that Congress was not going to change its mind about it- t / Congressmen repeatedly disclose that changing minds is one of the best things they do. Mr. Garner himself a few months ago was one of the most devoted believers in prohibition. The people changed his mind for him. “As a matter of fact, certain influential Senators told me privately that the British position may with great uropriety be reviewed, but none of them thought the December payment should he postponed,” concluded the Sun representative.