Evening star., 1938-10-29

European organization haze been
repeatedly condemned tor the pc
riodic crises Which hdDe threatened
Dorld peace. Attempts to make
some progress toUard correction
haze proved futile. Last world
conference. held in 1888, failed to
accomplish positiue results in this
direction. Idea OF ne,u interna-
tional discussion. broached from
time to time, has been held pre-
mature
By the Associated Press.
MARSEILLE. Oct 29.-Premier
EdOuard Daladier's radical Socialist
party today called for world economic
conference 'in accordance with the
wishes of President Roosevelt"
The party congress. in a resolution
vn foreign policy, declared that on
such a conference depended better re-
lations between Great Britain and
France on one hand and Germany and
Italy on the other.
President Roosevelt. in a telegram
to the International Chamber of Com
merce Council session at Paris Octo-
Der 81 said that Improvement of the
basis of natural and profitable eco
homie relations between countries" was
essential to the establishment of any
sa tisfactory and secure world order.
The message did not specifically men,
ton world economic conference.
U. S. Cooperation Asked.
The resolution which declared that
such conference should examine
"the means Of remedying the world S
economic disorder. was adopted after
Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet and
Edouard Herriot. president of the
Chamber of Deputies. asked the United
States to participate in the work of
peace"
The Chamber president. who dis
cuSsed the war debt situation at the
White House in April, 1898, asked that
President Roosevelt accord me a
new audience and admit that peace
demands more than international con-
ferences-it demands permanent
organization
Delegates interpreted his use of
the word audience" in a figurative
sense and as meaning he hoped his
words would reach the President.
Although M. Herriot long had been
one of the stoutest champions Of the
League Of Nations, he declared that
that international organization, with
its "pacts, covenants and private
treaties is sunk beneath the waves and
we are watching the shipwreck of in
ternational morale"
Deploes Nine-Power Pack Death.
He deplored the collapse" of the
nine-power pact to safeguard China's
territorial integrity, to which the
United States is a signatory.
The United States cannot longer
disinterest itself in a divided Europe" !"
Herriot said. Recent events prove 1t. .
M. Bonnet defended the peace of
Munich as good basis for recon-
struction of Europe.
Insisting that peaceful organization
OF Europe was possible only with bet
ter economic organization, the foreign
minister called for:
Rational organization of world pro-
duction and development of yet un-
exploited world riches.
An international monetary agree
ment to spur exchange and consump-
ton Of goods.
Means for Happiness.
He declared that employment of
these suggestions would afford the
means Of making happy, side by side" )"
peoples who up to now had used their
force for war.
NJ Bonnet's address was inter-
preted by delegates as forecasting gov
ernment efforts to bring about world
economic conference or at least eco
nomic conferences for Europe.
1t added another phase to Premier
Daladier's program of changes in the
internal and foreign policies of France
As q result of the Munich accord.
Breaks with leftist political parties
At home and projected accords with
NaZi Germany and Fascist Italy
abroad, leading to French abandon
ment of traditional attempts to dis
pute Europe's leadership with Ger
many, already have been disclosed as
a part of M. Daladiers program.
Directed economy" for the ma
ton, with emphasis on development of
the French colonial empire instead of
on European politics, is the keystone
Of the premier's plan.
Defends Crisis Policy.
NJ. Bonnet devoted large part Of
his speech to defense of his policy
in the Czechoslovak crisis. He argued
that France had acted in the best in