Evening star., 1933-04-16

Lhe hopes ana eTpectGttONS OF the
nations inVited to participate IL
President Roosepelts conferences III
Washington on toorld problems)
Copyright. 1888. BY the Associated press)
PARIS. April 15.-France hopes for
renewed goodwill more than anything
else out Of the Washington conversa-
tions on world problems, foreign once
officials have indicated. If the old friend
ship is restored, q spokesman pointed
out. the government and the people will
think that the technical problems are
half way toward a solution.
Debts are uppermost in the minds Of
the people, If the newspapers and the
man IN the street are authorities, but
government oflcials, while thinking Of
debts, look also toward maintenance of
the gold standard, lower and better
adjusted tariffs, a free movement of
capital and everything tending toward
restoration Of the economic system.
Hope for Debt Agreement.
While the average Frenchman hopes,
although vaguely, that former Premier
Edouard Herriot, who will represent
France at the conversation, will be able
TO bring back something concrete re-
garding war debts, such as revision and
even cancellation, the government, the
spokesman pointed out, Is more realistic
and confines itself to the hope that
Herriot may at least be able to prepare
the way for an eventual agreement.
The government, foreign Office OFF,
cials declared, was immensely pleased
with Mr.. Roosevelts invitation to par
ticipate in the talks.
Unofdcially it was recognized that tho
President easily might have left France
out In the cold, which would have been
extremely hurtful to French prestige
and might have increased the bitterness
and criticism aroused by the French
default OF last December's war debts tn.
terest payment.
M. Herriot, who is q believer in man
to-man talks and Is an exponent of
world friendship, has pointed to Mr..
Hoosevelt's leadership as the handspring
OF world reconstruction.
Fears Germany.
Trade revival is an object Of the
world economic Conference, but France,
the foreign Office officials asserted. also
has political troubles She feels alone
against what she considers a newly
dangerous Germany and wants world
friendship
She fears, Premier Edouard Daladier
said, Premier Mussolini's four-power
peace club as likely to put her in the
minority and its proposed treaty re-
vision clauses as menace Of war
At Washington, Herriot asserted,
France thinks the atmosphere Is con-
ducive 10 a Tightening of relations not
only with America, but with other pow
ers. Above all, the former premier
added, she hopes for closer collabora-
ton Of the three great democracies-
France, Great Britain and the United
States.
There also is the hope that through
this collaboration the disarmament
problem can be solved and thus be
eased the European tension which has
been felt as hindering the restoration
of world economy.
The government ardently hopes that
general agreements on as many as pos
sible points on the World Economic
Conference program will be reached.
but that above all France wants Amer
ican friendship
Herriot said he was taking common
sense and conciliation" in his baggage.
II good relations are restored, he will
be happy, he said, because then the
tariff, trade and money problems can
be approached in different spirit and
the nations can find themselves on the
road to a solution.