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Show 1R DEBTS SENTIMENT UHCHANGED Hoover's Proposal - ,For Commission Is Opposed. WASHINGTON, D. C, Nov. .23(U.R President Hoo- ; ver declared today that "ex- isting European debt agreements agree-ments must be respected "until "un-til they have been mutually modified by duly authorized representatives of the .governments .gov-ernments affected.'-' He declared further: that the congress should create an agency to exchange views with debtor na- i Hons, this agency -to make recom- , mendations to congress; The president, through 'Ogden i Mills; secretary of the treasury, j invited President-elect : Franklin j Roosevelt :to confer a second time, Roosevelt declined the invitation and later left for Warm Springs, ' Georgia. WASHINGTON, Nov. 23 HJ.E) President Hoover today discussed ! with congressional leaders recreation recrea-tion of the world war debt fundinfl commission, but, according to Sen ator Harrison, Dem., Miss., received receiv-ed little -encouragement, on th4 idea. . " ; Harrison,' 'the first perijon ' to emerge from the conference, said he did not believe congressional sentiment was .favorable toward the proposal. - The conference' began at 10 -a. m, dnd was ooncluded at 11:45 a. ro. No Cancellation - Democratic "flood leader Ralney said the conference was agreed Tthat the war debts would not be cancelled can-celled and that the Dec.. 15 payments pay-ments 'must be met.'" '. "We were all agreed,- the president presi-dent included," Rainey declared, , "that there should be no further revision or cancellation of war debts and that the December payments pay-ments must be met in full." Harrison was positive in his assertion as-sertion that the Democratic leaders lead-ers at the conference were opposed to re-creation of the debt funding commission or to any other concessions conces-sions on the foreign obligations. King Okehs Commission "If they pay what they owe on Dec. 15," Harrison declared, "that puts them in a better position. The people of this country will not stand for any postponement of the payments due next month." - Senator King, Dem. . Utah, another an-other of the conferees,., expressed willingness to . vote for creation of some kind of commission to reexamine re-examine the debts. He .said he would be insistent, however, on the debtors meeting their Dec. 15 payments. pay-ments. King said be believed that some arrangement granting relief to the debtors without actually cancelling their obligations might be worked out. |