Evening star., 1933-06-22
CRITICS KEEP j. S.
| DELEGATION JUMPY
Own BIunders Put Whole
American Group in Highly
Nervous State.
BY GEORGE H. MOSES,

oLoAtoL MUSES.
Former Senator From New Hampshire
Authority on International Affairs.
By Gable to The Star.
LONDON, England, June 22.-It may
be too much to say that the Americans
who are here in connection with the
World Monetary and Economic Confer
ence dwell in the midst of alarms, but
1t is safe to assert that mcst of them
delegates, attaches or correspondents
are highly nervous and junpy.
Most of them pick up the morning
newspapers with mingled feelings OF
chagrin and apprehension. This is due
to the fact that the United States has
been criticized so numerically not only
by headline writer's and news writers,
but also by editorial writers. To this
has been added the free reprinting of
comments of the continental press.
None has been pleasant reading for the
Americans.
All this, in turn, has much to offer
in eXtenuation for it cannot be denied
that the American delegation has been
the fountain from which have guShed
all the contretemps of the conference.
To name them seriatim one must begin
Will oCSlCIdAy VI oIdIc SOLOCll I1ul4 D
blundering speech at Cork-Which
necessitated an explanation here
Hull Scolds Reporters.
Then came his initial address to the
conference, promising concrete pro-
sposals on the part Of the Americans, a
spromise which was validated in a
sspeedily invalidated scheme for hori-
iRontal reduction in tariffs.
Next came a scheme for the tempo
1ary standardization of currencies,
governor of the Federal Reserve Bank
,jof New York, and DR.. o. M w. Sprague,
economic adviser, and promptly repudi-
ated by President Roosevelt.
At last was produced the plan Of
Senator Key Pittman of Nevada for
bimetalism and reduction of gold
coverage, which ran counter to the po-
'aite and platitudinous speech of former
Gov. James M. Cox of Ohio when they
pinned on him the blue ribbon of the
monetary commission Craftsmanship.
Gaping the climax was Hulls sum-
mons to press representatives to chide
them for writing the truth. He scolded
them in as nearly flsh-wife fashion
as his natural mildness would permit.
spontaneously with all these there
spread through London a series of
stories of dissension among the Ameri-
can delegation, until it came to be
i tbyword here that any American sug-
tgestion must be taken with several
grains of salt. The French especially
who for a century have cried out
against perfdious Albion, began to Won
der how to say double cross" in Eng
1ish so that it would agree in gender
with Uncle Sam.
Wait for Prof. Moley.
Then came a ray of hope in Ray"
Moley prof. Raymond Moley, Assistant
Secretary of State), who is on his way
to London. He is large cog in the
administration machine and his coming
the machine. Yet an American here
who is in position to know President
-Roosevelt's mind. declares that there is
nothing which Prof Moley can say or
do which will be helpful materially.
This person says that the President
will not shift his position and that no
form of stabilization, temporary or per-
manent, will receive Roosevelt approval
until the American domestic program
Is put more fully into operation-and
this regardless of the outstanding
feature of the Pittman resolution and
in spite of what France or any other
nation may say about the United States.
In this view of 1t, the Americans will
have to wait uncomfortably for another
week, and after Prof. Moley gets here,
they may be more uncomfortable than
ever.
Copyright, 1e33)