PEACE PLANS
DISCUSSED IN UNITED STATES QUESTIONS OF ECONOMIC ORGANISATION. CUSTOMS GROUPS SUGGESTED IN EUROPE. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. NEW YORK, January 12. The Washington correspondent of the “New York Times” says that in connection with a possible peace move by President Roosevelt at. an opportune time, the President’s advisers are carefully investigating a plan to establish European Customs groups along economic instead of political lines in order to facilitate trade between major manufacturing countries and small Powers which supply them with raw materials.
The President’s advisers are also analysing means of financially aiding countries which have developed unorthodox trade methods in order to permit them to return to recognised standards of international trade. They are further discussing the advancement of a Bill of Rights for European peoples; also freedom of communications and news. DUTCH OPINION NEUTRAL COLLABORATION FAVOURED. THE HAGUE, January 12. The Foreign Minister, Mr van Kleffens, in the Senate said: “I do not think peace efforts would be fruitless. Holland should collaborate with other neutrals, not merely those in Oslo, if they can usefully intervene for a just peace.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 January 1940, Page 5
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