Evening star., 1933-11-10
U. S.-Soviet Questions AreI
Renewed in Conference
With Litvinoff.
LOT OF WORK REMAINS
BEFORE FINAL ACTION
State Secretary Leaves Tomorrow
for Pan-Amerioan Meeting
in Montevideo.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
President Roosevelt and Maxim Lit
vinof announced jointly today that had
reviewed questions between this coun-
try and the Soviet, and that conversa-
tions will continue in normal course"
The statement said:
The President and MIR. Litvinof re-
viewed the questions between the two
countries which had previously been
discussed between the Secretary of State
and Mr.. Litvinoff."
THESE conversations with the Presi-
dent and with the State Department
will continue in normal course"
1t had been asserted in official quar-
ters earlier that there were many prob
lens that needed to be gone over, and
so no necessarily quick and final action
on recognition was to be expected.
No arrangements have yet been made
for another State Department meeting.
Hull Leaves Tomorrow.
Secretary Hull, who has been con-
Quoting negotiations, leaves tomorrow
morning for the Pan-American Eco
nomic Conference at Montevideo
Litvinof had nothing to say when he
left the White House beyond chuckling
reply to newspaper men that all would
be covered in the joint statement.
The Soviet commissar had reached
the White House at noon, few minutes
after Hull and other State Department
officials had joined the President. Lit
vinoff was attended only by the per-
sonal bodyguard assigned him by the
Government. The conversations took
place in the presidential Office.
Before today's conference, it was
pointed out that Mr.. Roosevelt Is in
sisting upon thorough understand
ing Of the numerous problems which
have accumulated in the 16 years Of
lack of relations between the two
countries.
He is leaving to his State Depart
ment aides the task of sitting through
the many questions confronting the
countries.
From time to time, such as today.
the President viii serve as q clearing
house for these issues In personal talks
with Lityinoff.
Kerensky Claims Cited.
There is at the State Department q
volume of 100 pages involving claims
against the old Kerensky government,
which ruled briefly after the over
throw of the CZarist regime, and In
opposition to the Soviets. This was
cited as an example of problems that
cannot be dispatched on short notice.
Litvinof and Secretary Hull engaged
separately today in iast-minute prep
arations for the conference with the
President.
At his Washington residence, the
CommisSar conferred with members of
his party, which includes Peter Bog
danov, chairman of the Amtorg Trad
ing Corporation; Boris Skvirsky, head
of the Soviet Information Bureau and
his host: Konstantin Umansky and
Ivan Divilkovsky, Of MoScow's ConmiS-
Sariat Of Foreign Affairs.
Secretary Hull, in his State Depart
ment Office early, talked with other Of
ficials who have attended the six hours
Of conferences with Litvinoff.
Details Given President.
Hull already has acquainted the Pres
ident with the progress made in his
own Office. where the Soviet Commis-
Sar three times has faced a committee
of six United States officials. The Sec
retary saw the Chief Executive last
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