PEACE TALKS

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 15, 5 October 1929, Page 7

PEACE TALKS

BRITAIN AND AMERICA MR HOOVER’S FISHING CAME POPULAR IMAGINATION SEIZED WASHINGTON, Oet. 4. On the eve of Mr MacDonald’s arrival there is the keenest realisation throughout America of the unusual significance of his visit. A University professor, addressing a meeting, says, “A profound revolution is being accomplished in doctrines and deeds which govern general affairs. ’ ’ A prominent official commenting says, “If there is Anglo-American rcapproachment to assure world’s peace, what need is there for defensive economic barriers between the English speaking countries. : 1 The Foreign Policy Association, which is one of the most prominent groups entertaining Mr MacDonald, has issued a presis explaining the import of Mr McDonald’s mission and observes, “It docs not mean an AngloAmerican alliance but a world alliance for peace.” A noted journalist writing, says, “To appreciate, the dramatic import of this unprecedented meeting of the leading executive representatives of the two nations, one. must grasp the fact that the two commonwealths they represent hold a population of 640,000,000 people, which is a vast part of the world’s population. ” There is also an awareness of the personalities of the two men and everywhere it is stressed that the conversations must markedly affect the wellbeing of vast numbers of human beings. It is emphasised, “they meet like two unofficial friends trying to get at each other’s difficulties. It will be as though any John Smith and Thomas Robinson were sitting down to talk matters over in order to get to a better understanding of each other’s point of view and because it is an ‘informal exchange of opinion’ the possibilities of good thereupon are felt to be especially great. They meet without the accompaniment of ambassadors, secretaries of state or ministerial adjutants, and therefore the conversations should prove of tremendous value.”

The thought, however, that Mr MacDonald and Mr Hoover will retire to the President’s fishing camp in the Virginia mountains and there hold their conversations, has, because of its simplicity of atmosphere, captured the imagination of the American people.