NO TOPICS BARRED

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18063, 13 April 1933, Page 7

NO TOPICS BARRED

WASHINGTON DISCUSSIONS SEARCH FOR UNDERSTANDING LONDON, April 12. Mr, A. E. Overton, of tho Board of Trade, Sir Robert Vansittart, and Sir Frederick Leith-Ross will accompany Mr. Ramsay MacDonald to Washington. No topics will be barred from the conversations, says tho Telegraph’s political correspondent. Tho major subjects will be finance, economic relations, debts, disarmament, and the general situation in Europe, regarding which tho aim of the British Government wilfoc to prevent the alignment ot nations into two camps. The correspondent learned that the invitation to Dir. MacDonald closed with tho words: “Do coino and spend a week-end with me. I am sure that, in a week-end, we can do more for good than has been done for a long time. There will be no attempt to make agreements, but Mr. MacDonald hopes to reach understandings with a view to closer co-opcration between the two countries.

Tho British United Press’ Paris correspondent states that, in the hope of turning public opinion in the United States more favorably towards France, tho Government has decided tQ embark on an elaborate campaign of propaganda which will be facilitated by an agreement between tho French official news agency and an American nows organisation, consisting of articles under famous French names, French films, ocean broadcasts by those who know the American mentality and the American women’s viewpoint, and removing the causes why France “so often is taken for a tired and worn out country.”