Show Tariff Talk The declaratIon in the Bri British sh house o of commons by President en Runciman Run ciman of the board ot of trade th i commercial conversations n the United Kingdom and the United States could coul l not be usefully cons consid Ed ered at this time indi Indicates ates an attitude toward reciprocity jf if and ana when President Roosevelt gets his reciprocity bill through congress It is also taken to indicate that Britain is not ready to talk currency either This means that proposals to either end will have to be initiated at Washington if at aU all and that pretty persuasive arguments will have to be used to bring the subject up The fruit ot of President Roosevelt Roosevelt's rebuff o of the thc rest ot of the world at the world wold economic conference is this disinclination to negotiate on the sub lub- of trade Other nations were will in ing to talk last summer but the Pros and thereby broke up the conference It is sid said in London that the board ot of trades trade's attitude was prompted by the uncertainty ot of the recovery program pro pro- gram in the United States This may be a polite way of callin calling our ur atten tion to the fact that we had our chance to make proposals and rejected It- It Los Angeles Times f mes |