The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-12-23
President-Elect Would Not Agree
 With President
So Hoover Decides to Quit the Idea of Creating Board to Examine War Debts-Will Be Done After March
United Press Stan oorrespondent) )

United Press Stan CorrespOndent)
 Washington, Dec 23-(U. P.) -l President Hoover has dropped his war, debt negotiation plan and Is going fishing, leaving the problem for President-elect Roosevelt whose sharply worded statement in criti- mism of MT Hoover's idea of "co- operation" has created political sensation. | The New York governors retort l to the presidents statement that "Goovernor Roosevelt considers 1t undesirable for him to assent to my suggestions for cooperative ac- ton" marked an almost bitter l change of views that have been l couched in the most courteous | phrases.
 l II am rather surprised" the gov- l ernor said, lat the White House statement issued this afternoon. It Is a pity, not only for this coun- l try but for the solution of world l problems that any statement or in- | timation should be. given that l l consider it undesirable to assent to cooperative action on foreign problems.
 "I have made to the president the definite suggestion that he sell ect his representatives to make preliminary studies. have asked l to be kept advised as to the pro- gress of these preliminaries. have | offered to consult with the pres ident freely between. now and | March 4.
 1T hope that this practical pro- l gram and definite offer of co-op-. eration will be accepted" | Few instances of such forceful, l direct reproach from 8 president elect for an outgoing president have been recorded in recent Amer ican history.
 The result may be any one of several courses:
 l Negotiations may be re-opened, | the president-elect instead of the outgoing president, taking the ini- tiative.
 The entire matter may be drop- ! ped until after March 4.
 The period until March may I be marked by bitter arguments be- tween the two administrations over foreign policy.
 The Roosevelt case, according to D the simplest terms such as used re- gently by nationally known com mentator, is that 1t takes two to produce cooperation.
 Newspapers and political leaders II generally conceded that all parties in the dispute were acting in good faith. Within the past few days, however, there have been sugges- tions that politics" was involved.
 Anti-administration commenta- tors said Mir Hoover and his advis- CTS, including Wall street, were at tempting to assure the financial in- terests that acceptable men would be named to the debt studying Lody.
 They said MT Hoover was at- It .pting to put his successor lin the hole" by placing him in the poe sition of re-opening the war debts question, which he was pledged to avoid.
 They have charged Mir Hoover with crying wolf" in claiming im- mediate action was necessary, add- ing MT Hoover hac had four years in which to plan such action, and did nothing; he hardly mentioned such a debt revision study during Il the campaign.
 They charged the republican I party favored revision downward, but feared to accept responsibility with the voting public in case of l unfavorable reaction, and so wish | ed the new administration to di- vide responsibility.
 1 The standardization com ment was that Mir Roosevelt did l not realize the seriousness of the situation, that he possibly had no war debt program and feared that ! f,ct would be revealed in case of immediate war debt study.
 MT Hoover feels that President elect Roosevelt and himself were so far apart on their ideas of "co- loperative' procedure that anything