BRITAIN’S NEW NOTE

Hokitika Guardian, 15 December 1932, Page 5

BRITAIN’S NEW NOTE

TO UNITED STATES NEGOTIATIONS FOR REVISION. I WASHINGTON, December 13. Britain s new debt note was received to-day. Mr H. Stimson (United States 'Secretary) said; "Negotiations Avith the British Government are closed so far as concern the December 15 payment. II do not anticipate that a repiy will be necessary to to-day’s note.’’ The latest British debt note explained that the British Government «n last Sunday’*) note had intended to explain th e circumstances whereon it A\a s decided to make payment, and that .it had not intended “to touch upon any matter affecting the constitutional positin' of the United '•’tates,” but the Jate s t Not© asserted Jrltain “ must reserve the right to recur’’ to those considerations which • she set forth.

There is no quarrel here Avith this aim. The United States Administration does not believe that the claim

later to be made will prove to be a complicated one, because so many larger questions will be at issue an the revision.

The revision negotiations are now generally regarded as a matter which, so far as Britain is concerned, is in <Mr Roosevelt’s hands. It is not believed that the negotiations for debt revision can possibly be started before March 4 next.

CONCERN IN THE SENATE

AT DEFAULT BY BELGIUM

WASHINGTON, December 14

United States officials have expressed considerable concern at the decision of the Belgian Cabinet to make ■default, and also at the precarious ■position of the Herriot Cabinet in 'France, which many feared, would not weather to-night’s debate in the Chamber of Deputies. The officials admitted that the fall of the French Cabinet would further complicate the situation.

Routine debt not e answers Avere delivered by the United States to the Belgian ambassador and the Czechoslovakian Minister. They were in the same phraseology, and they denied the of the present payments.

CHARGE OF IMPEACHMENT. AGAINST PRESIDENT HOOTER. WASHINGTON, December 13. What hitherto has been a sporadic debate on the debt question in Congress took a dramatic turn when Representative MdFadden, in lintroducig his resolution' for the impeachment of President Hoover, specifically charged the President Avith “high crimes and misdemeanouus,” chiefly in connection with the Avar debt arrangements, Mr Hoover was also charged that he had appointed iMr Mellon as Unitea State s ambassador to Britain Avhije he {.Mellon) was under a resolution charging him Avith impeachment. Representative A'lcFadden denounced Mr Hoover’s handling of the bonne army, which, probably, was responsible for six votes they cast for hi*, resolution. HOOVER’S PREPARATIONS. WASHINGTON, December 13. President Hoover is preparing a special Foreign Affairs Note for Congress and he is now a Availing possible defaults in order- to frame his communications. He is ignoring M. Herriot’s attacks in the French, Chamber of Deputies, apparently considering that they have been uttered more for local consumption in France than for foreign ears. It is conceded that the possiffiility of a default by' o ther countries besides Belgium would bronk a •“United Front,” but Avould not contribute to an easy approach to the problem of any revision.