British Attempt to Speed Up the Work.

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 659, 12 January 1933, Page 1

British Attempt to Speed Up the Work.

NEW YORK, January 10. The Washington correspondent of the “New York Times” says that in spite of the presumption that the British Government is resigned to the apparent necessity of awaiting Mr F. D. Roosevelt’s inauguration on March 4, to reopen debt negotiations, it has been learned that the British Ambassador, Sir Ronald Lindsay, called on Senator W. E. Borah, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, several days ago. It is stated that the ostensible reason of the Ambassador’s visit was to* object to the nature of one of Senator Borah’s speeches in the House, but was actually to request a friendly suggestion as to a possible method of approaching Mr Roosevelt on the matter of the British debt to the United States and of starting negotiations as soon as possible. Although both Sir Ronald# Lindsay j and Senator Borah refused to comment, it is reliably understood that the latter expressed the opinion that such an approach was impossible until Mr Roosevelt’s Secretary of State had been named. In the meantime, Mr Roosevelt, who is in New York, after a conference with Mr H. L. Stimson to-day, held a lengthy private conference with Colonel E. M. House, indicating that foreign affairs are now the foremost problem before him. Some observers believe that Sir Ronald Lindsay’s opinions were somehow unofficially communicated to Mr Roosevelt.