Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-12
GRAND| HAS FREE
HAND IN i. S. VISIT
italian Foreign Minister May
Be Able to Act With
Finality Here.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
Every page in the book OF interna-
tional problems in which Italian Amer
lean cooperation might offer solutions
will be turned next week by Foreign
Minister Grandi of Italy and President
Hoover.
Like the talks between President
Hoover and Premier Laval of France,
however, the worlds economic stu
alton and the bearing which interna-
tional relations have upon it will be
constantly in the foreground.
There will be considerable differ
ence between the status of the forth
coming conversations and those which
closed few days ago when the French
premier returned home. Both Mr..
Hoover and Premier Laval had to con-
slider the influence of a Congress and
a Parliament, realizing that any con-
crete steps growing out of the CONVEX
Sations would necessarily require legis-
lative approval.
Has Full Support.
For President Hoover, that problem
still exists. The Italian statesman.
however, will carry the full backing of
Premier MusSolini which means sup
port CT the Italian Government without
reservations.
President Hoover is fully prepared to
discuss all five of the points understood
to be contained in the program which
the foreign minister brings.
Premier. Laval brought no detailed
program with him and President
Hoover had none to offer. They worked
out mutual basis for their talks after
the French statesman arrived.
Three of the foreign minister's points
Will offer no difficulty. They are al
most echoes of American policy, call
ing for world economic corporation.
disarmament by a fair method and
maintenance of the gold standard.
On the other two. the President will
seek an understanding of Italys posi-
ton. They center around war debts
and reparations and peace treaty re-
vision.
AloOf From Treaty Changes.
italy was the first nation actively to
put in effect the Presidents one-year
holiday plan on intergovernmental
debts
Since that time, there has been every
indication that she was prepared to
cooperate in any international move
designed to untangle the general
problem.
The question of treaty revision
though, is one in which the United
States has kept at a safe distance,
claiming 1t to be problem only within
the province of the powers in Europe
concerned.
One person with whom the for
eign minister will talk and who will
likely find ready agreement with all
five points will be Senator Borah, Re-
publican, Idaho. The chairman of the
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
spent several hours with the French
premier on his recent visit, but each
admitted at parting they were no nearer
agreement than when they began Their
conversations.
The italian program comedies more
nearly with the Senator's feelings and
will serve as an immediate basis fol-
conversations between these two.
To Use Mussolini's Interpreters.
Two of Premier Mussolini's own in
terpreters will sit in as prompters dur
ing Grandi's talks with President
Hoover.
Guido Rocco and Leonardo Vitetti
both masters of English and formerly
attached to the Italian embassy here
will assist the minister in the &C.
casional English words he lacks to
carry on a conversation. Both have
interpreted for the Italian premier in
conversations requiring English.
An accomplished English student
himself, Grand usually calls on an
interpreter only on the rare occasions
when words do not come to the tip
Of his tongue.