TARIFF TRUCE

Stratford Evening Post, Volume II, Issue 239, 10 May 1933, Page 6

TARIFF TRUCE

United Stales and Belgium UNQUALIFIED AGREEMENT Press Association. —Copyright. Washington, May 8. The unqualified agreement of Belgium to the tariff truce proposed by the United States was announced to-day by the Under-Secretary of State, Mr. William Phillips, after a conference with the Belgian representatives at the State Department. The Belgian action was made known as the United States renewed its efforts to obtain Britain’s agreement to the truce. France has accepted with reservations, while J-pan has indicated that it will do likewise. Dr. Hjalmar Schachi, the German representative in the White House conversations, has asserted that Germany will take part in the plan. China is the seventh country tp enter the conversations through a special/ representative, who took an active part to-day. He is Mr. T. V. Sr-ng, the Finance Minister, who will lunch with the President and begin the talks thereafter. News of the decision of the French Cabinet on the war- debts, demanding a guarantee of a moratorium in respect to the June payment, was received with some disappointment in Administration circles. It was reiterated authoritatively that the United States is still expecting European debtors to pay the T me instalments, at least partially. Senator Wheeler's resolution urging United States’ delegates to the World Economic Conference to work for an agreement to remonetise silver at 16 to one wifh gold was approved to-day by the Senate,