POST-WAR ECONOMY

Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 184, 1 May 1940, Page 9

POST-WAR ECONOMY

Role Outlined For U.S. Business Men i Received April 30, 7.5 p.m.) WASHINGTON, April 29. M. Van Zeeland, former Prime Minister of Belgium, in a speech, said United States business men might have a decisive role in the post-war reorganization of world economy on an international basis. He urged that the primary objective should be the raising of the living standard of the masses, for which reason artificial obstacles hampering the circulation of goods, capital and men must be abated and suppressed. He cited the dangers of the concentration of gold in a single country.

LEADERS CONFER

Canada And United States

(Received April 30, 7.5 p.m.) IVASHINGTON. April 29. The Prime Minister of Canada, Mr. Mackenzie King, conferred with President Roosevelt and the Secretary of State, Mr. Hull. No one would comment on the conference after its conclusion.

U.S. CONTROL MOVE

Property Of Citizens Of Conquered Nations ( Received April 39, 7.5 p.m. i WASHINGTON, April 29. The Senate passed and sent to the House a Bill permitting the freezing of propertv held in the United States by citizens of nations conquered by belligerents in the European war, despite Republican, contentions that this dangerously empowers the President to control private bank accounts.

U.S. MOTORIZED TROOPS BEGIN MANOEUVRES

NACODOCHES (Texas), April 29. Thirty thousand motorized troops have started preliminary manoeuvres.