FEELING THE WAY

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 428, 12 January 1933, Page 5

FEELING THE WAY

(Press. Assn.—

BRITISH AMBASSADOR TRIES TO SOUND THE NEV/ PRESIDENT THE DEBT QUESTION

-By Telegrapli — Copyrlglit).

Rec. Jan. 11, 7.0 p.m. I New York, Jan. 10. The Washington correspondent of the New York Times says despite the presumption that the British Government is resigned to the apparent necessity of waiting Mr. Franklin Roosevelt's inauguration on March 4, to re-open the debt negotiations, it is learned that the reason for Sir Ronald Lindsay, British Ambassador, calling on Senator Borah, though ostensibly to object to the nature of one of his Senate. speeches, was really to request a fi*iendly suggestion as to the possible methods of approaching Mr. Roosevelt on the matter 'of starting negotiations as soon as possible. Both Sir Ronald and Senator Borah refused to comment, but it is reliably understood that the latter expressed the opinion that this is impossible until Mr. Roosevelt's Secretary of State has been namecL Meanwhile Mr. Roose.velt, in New York, after his conference with Mr. H. L. Stimson to-day, held a lengthy private conference with Colonel House, indicating that foreign affairs are now the foremost problems before him. Some observers believe that Sir Ronald Lindsay's opinion was somewhow unofficially communicated to him.