OVERSEAS OPINIONS

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19626, 21 October 1933, Page 9

OVERSEAS OPINIONS

SOME INTERESTING VIEWPOINTS. The Economic Conference. “If the Economic Conference meets speech reported in the "News Chronicle,” “I personally have become rather sceptical of world-wide movements of any particular kind in regard to these big economic questions at all events for some time. We must consider how we can create groups which would agree on monetary and tariff policies and restore the maximum movements of trade without creating friction with other nations not In the group. I feel convinced that Is what is going to happen. If there is a function for a resumed World Conference, it should be to try and thrash out conditions of international behaviour and draw up codes, as it were, of commercial policy. I believe America will find a means of devising methods of becoming a party to such a move in the same manner as it has begun to cooperate during the past 15 years in international politics.” America's Bombshell In London. “It was an American Declaration of Independence that was handed to the London Conference delegates," says the “Literary Digest." “Through the country the Presidential utterance which was carried in the papers on Juiy 4 aroused an enthusiasm which drowned out the few critical notes. Just as a j sample of this there was the Republican Boston “Transcript” paying tribute to the ‘admirable, almost astounding force of character' shown In the note. The Philadelphia “Record” found it 'a message of high hope to the American people.' The ''News” in Detroit, the "Ohio State Journal” in | Columbus, the “Post" in Denver, were among important newspapers which hailed the President's statement as 'a new Declaration of Independence.’ ” The Cheerful Briton. “Americans who had expected to find | Englishmen using the word ’depresison’ have been agreeably disappointed. ! It is the British habit to take things as they come, and to let nothing inter - j fere with their main object which is. i simply stated the enjoyment of life, j Britain’s greatest resource will be j found to he in its appeal to sentiment, j and in the rewards which it offers to j intelligent visitors from all countries, especially to those who may come from ' the United States and from the British Dominions. The future of travel and intercourse between America and [ Europe is destined to be far greater ' than in the past. The Continental countries will not lose their share of : profitable travel business. But the I British Isles especially may do well j to prepare for a steadily increasing I stream of visitors. These guests wiU ' not only find education and pleasure in j historic survivals and in the scenes of cheerfulness in the face of vicissitudes that the British people exhibit, beyond those of any other country.” Dr. Albert Shaw, editor of the "Review of Reviews,” of America.