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Show T-ir -'in;.. "IC.K w.i'i-J Rc:c!::J on ' Drilisli Crisis i .. - :-:-. ' i WASHINGTON. Sept M IB The United States, Britain and r.M Monday announced a 10-potnt 10-potnt program for dealing with Britain's immediate dollar crista. i Ita aim, too. Is to make Britain self-supporting In long-rang dot-. dot-. lar earnings- . Tb program was announced at r joint news conference held at the oonclisrion of th week-long tares power talks here. Sir Stafford Crippa, British chancellor of the exchequer, said be I convinced the agreements ' win block any further dangerous drain on Britain's gold and dollar v j SoppluBoeat Use seise The 10 point supplement "Britain's "Brit-ain's own belt-tightening measurea. They provide, first of all. for a series of trade tiuncssslons and other steps by the United States and Csnsrts. ' llmmediata potnU Include: ; Greater freedom for Britain to Spend 1U MarehaU plan dollars. 1 Modification m. Amrira eue-tms eue-tms proeedureav , Increases in stockpiling of rub-. rub-. fear and tin and aa lac res sod opportunity op-portunity for use in this country of raw rubber instead of synthetic reboer made here. : I All such measurea either win enable Britain to aara more dollars dol-lars by selling more goads to the United Statea and Canada, or will help Britain conserve the dollars she has. -.-- ;. ' . Approach Selutiea Secretary of th Treasury Sny-- Sny-- der, chief American negotiator at th week td Un-po"er talks, said that ha felt the talks had tad a "substsatial advance m approaching a aolution" of Britain's Brit-ain's dollar shortage problem, , Douglas Abbott, Csnadiaa finance fi-nance minister, had given Jn ad-vanoe ad-vanoe what amounted to a summary sum-mary of hia view on aoesmphsh-menta. aoesmphsh-menta. In a speech to a National Frees elub luncheon be said the three aountrle "have made very aaeouraglng progress. " He said, however, that the Job Is far from complete end that there la "no prospect ot Immediate relief re-lief tram ah our difficulties." Of positive coampitahmaata, ha said: j Piaarailas Step ' "We have determined what atsps can be taken at this time,-end above an, we have agreed en the direction fea which we must work. Each ef ur government must eooetantry reexamine the edecfue-ciea edecfue-ciea of our pobdee tn the light ef the ultimate goal (of preventing recurrent SoUar-esMrUg cri).. |