Show U. U t I S S. S a aMEET BANKERS MEET RUSSIANS Private Conference Reflects Reflects Reflects Re Re- Importance of Soviet-American Soviet Trade NEW YORK Dec 1 AP AP- AP American bankers and Russian in industrialists industrialists In- In gathered at a banquet at the Bankers' Bankers In New York Thursday and In view of the commercial commercial commercial com com- mercial possibilities of ot Russia the meeting of bankers and Russian business men took on unwonted sig sig- Absolute secrecy however surrounded surrounded sur sur- rounded the proceedings so far as American newspaper representatives tives were concerned but the Russian Russian Russian Rus Rus- sian semi official news agency was wa able to obtain some of oC the details which h were forwarded to Moscow and published there Though information was refused to the American representatives as the banquet was declared to be of ot ofa ofa a a. private nature the Associated Press Instructed Its Moscow bureau to send back to the United States Che he account of or the dinner as a's as made public in m Russia and Is thus able to present an outline of ot the pro pro- The most significant indication of at the increasing importance of soviet-American soviet trade says the cabled account from Moscow was wasa as asa a banquet today Thursday at which Reeve Schley Vice president of the Chase National bank entertained entertained entertained enter enter- officials of the soviet tradIng trading trading trad trad- ing organizations together with representatives of the most Important Important important import Import- ant American financial and industrial industrial industrial indus indus- trial concerns Nominally the banquet celebrated ed the awarding of or prizes to American AmerIcan American Amer Amer- ican manufacturers whose automobiles automo automo- aut automobiles mobiles mo- mo biles successfully participated in soviet road endurance tests last summer Actually the real sign significance significance It- It of today's events greatly ex exceeded exceeded ex- ex this incidental circumstance The Dhe banquet was the first outspoken out en recognition by American finance and industry of the importance of at soviet trade and the stability of the soviet government |