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The Daily Worker
Chicago, Cook County, Illinois
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In Washington on April 23, President Roosevelt and British Prime Minister J. Ramsay MacDonald began economic and political negotiations, assigning tasks to experts while stalling for conferences with Edouard Herriot and others. Herriot criticized boundary revision proposals from MacDonald-Mussolini talks, and both leaders share anti-Soviet views, excluding the USSR from discussions.
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"Moral Objectives To Be the Same", Says Herriot, Referring to Anti-Soviet Plans
WASHINGTON, April 23.—The first "conversation" between Prime Minister J. Ramsay MacDonald of England and President Roosevelt yesterday resulted in assigning to the so-called economic and political experts special committee tasks to gather material upon which to base further discussions,
according to the announcement made at the White House.
This move is only an excuse for stalling off any definite proposals until after there have been conferences with the former premier of France, Edouard Herriot and representatives of other countries on their way here. It is certain that as far as the material to be used by the United States government is concerned that has been available for some time, inasmuch as all departments of the government, especially the state, war, navy and commerce departments, have been preparing for the conversations.
Announcement was made that there would be nothing beyond formal announcements on the "progress" being made.
Assails "Four-Power" Proposals.
Herriot also took an indirect slap at MacDonald by stating that any attempt to revise boundaries in Europe would lead to disastrous results. This was directed against the recent MacDonald-Mussolini conferences in Rome which resulted in the proposal for a four-power treaty embracing England, Italy, Germany and France, but which proposed cutting down the boundaries of the French puppet states the Little Entente and Poland.
Secret Anti-Soviet Plots.
Today MacDonald and Roosevelt are spending the day together on the presidential yacht on the Potomac river. It is certain that the one point on which they are in agreement is that dictated by the hatred and fear of the decaying capitalist world for the Soviet Union, the one country in the world that is advancing economically and the one country that has a stable currency. The fact that Roosevelt did not invite to the Washington conferences the Soviet Union and that the British government is carrying on a veritable frenzy of provocation against the Soviet Union is proof that they will try to find some basis on which they can proceed in their anti-Soviet plots.
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April 23
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assigned tasks to economic and political experts for further discussions; stalling for conferences with herriot and others; criticism of four-power treaty proposals; shared anti-soviet agreement, excluding ussr from washington conferences.
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The first conversation between Prime Minister J. Ramsay MacDonald and President Roosevelt resulted in assigning tasks to experts to gather material for future discussions. This is seen as stalling until conferences with Edouard Herriot and others. Herriot criticized attempts to revise European boundaries from MacDonald-Mussolini talks on a four-power treaty. MacDonald and Roosevelt spent the day on the presidential yacht, agreeing on anti-Soviet plots, with no invitation to the Soviet Union.