GARNER'S IGNORANCE

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 398, 6 December 1932, Page 5

GARNER'S IGNORANCE

(Press Assn.-

HAS NOT READ NOTE

-By Telegraph — Copyright)

Washington, Dec. 4. The prize tstory about the war debt negotiations develq'ped to-day in a conversation, a Sun representative had with Mr. J. H. Garner. The Sun man says this eminent Texlas statesman retailed what he had said to Mr. Hoover recently. adding: "I still think the same way." He continued: "But you know, I have not read this latest note from Britain. I haven't had itme. I have been too busy with beer." "Mr. Garner in thiis matter," continues the Sun representative, "has more powerf than the President. He will be the boss of Congress in the coming lame duck session, '.and next year he will be vice-President and the presiding officer of the Senate. "One of the great documents of diplomatic history had paissed and he would not take the trouble to read it, yet he Was rady to jump into the front column of the American press. with a positive deelaration that Congress was not going to change its mind ahout it. Congressmen Change Their Minds "Congressmen repeatedly disclose that the changing of their minds is one of the best things they do. Mr. Garner Was himself 'a few months ago, one of the most devoted believers in prohibition. The people changed his mind for him, as a matter of fact. "Certain influential Senators. told me privately that the British position m'ay with great propriety be reviewed, but none of them thought the December payment should be postponed," concluded the Sun representative.