WORLD TARIFFS
THE TRUCE PROPOSAL. ACCEPTANCE BY BELGIUM. (United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright.) Washington, May 8. Tire unqualified agreement of Belgium to a tariff truce as proposed by the United States was announced today by the Under-Secretary of State, Mr William Phillips, after a conference with Belgian representatives at the State Department. The Belgian action was made known as the United States renewed efforts to obtain Britain’s agreement to a truce. France has accepted with reservations, while Japan has indicated that she would do likewise. Dr H. Jalmar Schacht, the German representative, in his conversations at White House has asserted that Germany will join in the plan. China is the seventh country to enter the conversations through a special representative, who took an active part to-day with Mr T. V. Soong, the Finance Minister. The visitors are lunching with the President and beginning the talks thereafter.
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Southland Times, Issue 22011, 10 May 1933, Page 5
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