LATE DEVELOPMENTS

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 443, 30 January 1933, Page 5

LATE DEVELOPMENTS

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british ambassador returns to consult his government ROOSEVELT TAKES COMMAND

-By Telegraph — Copyright).

Kec. Jan. 2lJ, b.ou p.m. Washington, Jan. 28. At the request of the. British Government, the British Ambassador, Sir Ronald Lindsay, is sailing on January 31 to lay the Anglo-American debt situation before his Government. It is announced to-night that opinion in offieial eircles is that Sir Ronald Lindsay's journey is in the interests of preventing a deadlock between Great Britain and the United States over the preliminaries to the March discussions. The impasse has been laid before Mr. Franklin Roosevelt at Warm Springs, but no intimation is given of the next move. It is generally | known that the present administra- ] tion is anxious that Great Britain j should come here. It is understood by unusually authoritative sources that Mr. Herbert Hoover disagreed with the view that the British have no tangible conclusion to offer in exchange for the downward revision. The feeling is widespread in important administrative quarters that no formal answer to London should be sent at present on the ground that it wright discourage Great Britain from engaging in discussions if the State Department is uncommunicative on debts. Senators at Variance In the Senate, Senator Robinson, of Indiana, Republican, introduced a resolution unqualifiedly opposing the | revision of war debts after assailing Senator Robinson, of Arkansas, a Democratie leader, for having brought Sir Ronald Lindsay as his guest, on to the floor of the House in violation of the rules. Senator Robinson, of Arkansas, . apologised, explaining that his action was inadvertent and that the subject of international dehts was not even mentioned much less discussed. Whereupon, Senator Robinson, of Indiana, rejoined, "I submit that the Foreign Ambassador has no right on the floor. Everybody knows that his chief interest is to get his nation's debt reduced." Senator Robinson, of Arkansas, opposed the immediate consideration of the resolution which was referred to the foreign relations committee where it is likely to be killed.