| Show BOURBONS TO TOSHUN TOSHUN TOSHUN SHUN AIDING HOOVER PLAN President Determined to Proceed Proceed Proceed Pro Pro- With Threefold Economic Scheme GETS REPLY Contents of Message Are Carefully auar Guarded ed B By Associated Press Puss W WASHINGTON ASHINGTON Dee Dec 21 21 Frost dent Hoover apparently w will t not receive receive receive re re- re- re Democratic support for his threefold plan pIan of approaching world economic difficulties but nevertheless less he is determined d to proc proceed ed on n his own initiative in the few weeks remaining of his administration While congressional Democrats avoided commitments which would hinder their action o l after alter March 4 Mr Hoover and hi his advisers began a series of conferences in iq preparation for the proposed international economic eco i cco-i meeting which the chief chic ex cx- has lii linked ked with studies of war debts and disarmament 1 lob I Iwar lems This followed his special message to congress in which the president said that discussions in respect to both debt questions and the world economic conference cannot be con con- on- on eluded during my administration the economic situation in the world work n necessitates the preliminary work essential to its success The undertaking of these preliminary prelim inary mary questions should not be bc delayed delayed de de- until after March 4 he added NO OF OFFICIAL WORD WORD There was no no official word from President-elect President Roosevelt but his friends here and in Albany were strongly of the thc opinion he would no not cooperate with Mr Hoover as the latter had suggested Meanwhile i iwas it was vas regarded as unlikely that any Democratic members of congress would be available for service on the commission the president proposes to appoint to deal with debts am and coordinate that problem with disarmament disarmament dis dis- armament and economic discussions But the fact th that t Secretaries Mills and Stimson conferred with Mr Hoover Hoo Hoo- vcr ver on preparation of a program for forthe forthe forthe the economic parley led to speculation speculation specula specula- tion that these two cabinet members might have places on the commis commis- sion sian Stimson heads the thc American arms delegation to the Geneva con con- ference Mr Roosevelt's reply to the president dent was understood to be at the White House but its contents were carefully guarded The governors governor's friends here say they believe he will wil insist that the responsibility for dealing dealing deal deal- ing inc with war var ar debts lies with the present pres pros ent cut administration until March 4 am and that he has Ideas of his own for meeting meeting meet meet- ing the problem WATCH REACTION Whether Mr Hoover will name naine his commission before leaving at the end of the week on his planned southern vacation was a matter of speculation Meanwhile administration leaders watched foreign reaction to the presidents president's dents dent's debt message hopeful that it would afford France lorance a basis for tor paying paying pay pay- ing its defaulted December 15 instalment instalment ment and prove satisfactory to the nations which paid to gain England Will Advise Against Arbitration ion PARIS PARIS Dec Dee 21 fP JP Great Great Britain will informally counsel France against pursuing an idea under consideration consideration con con- by officials of having the question of ot pa payment ment of the December Decem December I ber bel terest fl on on the American mer can debt submitted to arbitration according to torel rel reports orts in diplomatic circles It is stated that the British feel this his would not in the long run contribute to sl successful settlement of the debt problem and that resort to arbitration tion would be undesirable because it would be founded rounded on the presumption presumption presumption tion that the question cannot be set set- Continued on Face PACO Two BOURBONS TO TOSHUN TOSHUN SHUN AIDING HOOVER PLAN Continued d From Page Puo One tied through the regular diplomatic diplomat channels However the British arc are said I to be strong for the French idea that a general conference or general ne should hould be adopted for treat treat- lug ins the debts The general situ situation tion lined up to to- day about as follows vs First the French attitude is t to keep negotiations with America Amerie ac ac- ac lively ely going Second eventually to try to move move toward a Fr Franco American study o othe of the debts by experts of the two coun coun- tries Third a move toward a general genera conference Fourth likelihood that France expected nothing vital could be accomplished accomplished ac ac- ac before the advent of the Roosevelt administration Fifth the likelihood that the government government gov gov- would not attempt for several seVe sev- eral months to get a new vote from the chamber of ot deputies on payment of the December interest The American embassy alread already has established contact with the new cabinet r the debts question Theodore Theodore Theo Thee dore 1 counselor to the embassy cm em- b bassy sy was received today by M. M Cot undersecretary of oC state in ln the for for- eign ministry Indications are that in keeping with his announced plan to do something something some some- thing thine Premier Paul will wil give considerable authority and initiative initiative in in- to his fellow ministers |
