GET MOVING

Hokitika Guardian, 27 June 1933, Page 6

GET MOVING

AMERICA’S DESIRE. THE INVOLVED POSITION. Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (Received this day at 1.5 p.m.) LONDON, June 26. It is symptomatic of the American desire, to get things moving, that Mr Cox. following Mr Chamberlain, agreed that the time had come to terminate debates and get down to drafting. Tbe Sun Service states more than ever the delegates realise they cannot let the conference Mil without the world being terrifically endangered. Central Europe has already commenced to icrumble. The Nazis, taking .advantage of the Big Five being engrossed in London, to challenge Austria and defy Versailles Treaty in the matter of air strength" If the conference failed. Hitler , would probably force Dr i! oil fuss to a -crisis, which is only solvable by war. Every .artifice is . being employed by Nazis to this end, while M. Benes and other diplomats are striving to arrange for the alignment of Austria 1 and Hungary with the Little Entente, in order to strengthen Dr Dollfiiss -Apart from the economic dislocations which are bleeding th© world to death, there ig this tremendous reason why the delegates should ■ remain in session and accomplish something. Despite M r Roosevelt’s resolution, the sub-committees are working at high pressure to frame an outline of a scheme not providing for stabilisation, hut laying down broad conditions wherein >Uhifs is achievable, provided the major nations concur. In another committee. India to-day dealt a blow at wholesale tariff scaling by affirming she has provided twentyfive per cent, for indigenous industries for a specified number of years, and cannot break this undertaking, and won’t agree not to extend equal protection to 6ther natural industries. Seeking help at the same time s he would welcome a reduction of prohibitive duties imposed % other countries.