FEDERAL ATTORNEY-GENERAL REVIEWS WORLD CONDITIONS

Stratford Evening Post, Volume I, Issue 497, 20 July 1932, Page 5

FEDERAL ATTORNEY-GENERAL REVIEWS WORLD CONDITIONS

HOT MUCH FAITH IN PROPOSED WORLD CONFERENCE { “INTERESTS OF NATIONS ARE SO DIVERSE” NO ONE CAN GAIN UNLESS PREPARED TO GIVE ~n •; yc.rr :-I.fi es.rl j<>■ : bit I- ■■■ ! .1i j " ■ ! " /•- .c ! i -r : - J r ! ' OOM 3h Press Association.— Copyright, > Received'To-day, 1 8.50 a. m- PERT H,’To-day. SPEAKING at a civic reception after his visit to Great Britain .. .and the Continent, Hon. J., G. Latham, Commonwealth At-torney-General, said he did not have much faith in the proposed world conference as the interests of nations were so diverse, and this fact would have to be recognised. Some nations did not want to help others, and such a conference would get nowhere on economic matters.

It was going to be very difficult even at Ottawa and he predicted the Dominions would gain nothing un. less they were prepared to give something. .Everybody today wanted to sell something and avoid buying. The Lausanne agreement was a very marked step forward in Europe. It was also most interesting ano significant to hear M. Harriot and

Dr. von Papen speaking cf present, dav conditions and not of past history. There was a very general view that reparations and war debt payments between Europe and America had become impracticable re. gerdless of what the nations thought, and there also was complete realisa. then that the payments could not be made in the present conditions of world trade. , •