Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-04-27
Senators 10 Give Hull
Congress Protest on
Food Farley Secrecy
Secretary Says Matter
Con Be Worked Out
By OruI Discussion
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press. 49,
Congressional demands that
there be no secrecy about the
international food parleys in Hot
Springs, Va, May 10 are being
carried direct to Secretary of
State Hull today by two mem
bers of the Senate Agriculture
Committee.
The committeeman, Senators
Aiken, Republican, of Vermont and
Gillette, Democrat, Of Iowa, go to
Mr.. Hull's Office at the Secretarys
own invitation Mr.. Hull said in
letter to Chairman Smith that it
was suggested at recent session
on Capitol Hill that the matter
could be worked out "far better by
oral discussion than through cor
respondence"
IT am sure that you will agree
that this is the desirable course"
Mr.. Hull said, land my associates
and will be glad to cooperate fully
with you and your colleagues in this
respect"
d, Insist on Observers.
While the committee has in
structed Senator Smith to insist on
having its own observers at the con-
ference, Senator Aiken told report
ers he would be satisfied with nor
NAL press coverage" and believed
his colleagues felt the same way.
IF the proceedings are not made
public there is too much danger of
implied, if not direct, commitments"
he declared.
Il think the public generally
wants to feed the hungry of the
world. Personally, I feel that people
are not sure we have done all we
could, but We want to go into things
with our eyes open. We don't want
to drift into government that binds
the people by secret treaties"
CLOSED Door" Charges.
Mr.. Murray wrote Mr.. Welles that
the CLIO had intended to send "out-
standing officers" of the union to
the conference, but ito our dismay
we have, been informed that this
conference is behind closed doors
and that we will not be permitted to
appear"
Mr.. Murray said, "The voice OF the
Welles Replies to CLIO.
Meanwhile, a letter from Under
secretary of State Welles to CLIO
President Philip Murray disclosed
today that the State Department
has invited such recommendations
and advice" as the CIO may desire
to submit" in connection with the
Bermuda refugee conference.
The communication responded to
a letter from Mr. Murray protesting
what he described as the CLOSED
door" policy at the conference and
explaining that his organization had
desired to send representatives to
Bermuda to report the sentiments
of our membership" on the problems
of aiding minorities prosecuted by
the Axis.
Disputing the CLOSED door" desig-
nation and soliciting the views of
the CLIO, Mr.. Welles said these
should be transmitted immediate
ly" to the State Department so that
they might in turn be communicated
to the American delegation at Ber-
muda.
Mr. WeLes also rebuked the labor
leader who had compared the Ber-
muda Conference with 1.-The futile
Evian Conference" of 1887, when
the same subject matter was under
discussion. May I remind you,"
Mr.. Welles said, that that CEvian)
Conference. which was called upon
the initiative of President Roosevelt,
was the first constructive interna-
tional movement to create inter-
governmental machinery which
might make it possible in a practical
way to give relief to those who are
suffering persecution in Europe
peoples organizations of the United
Nations should be heard at this
conference"
The request for permission to be
represented at the Bermuda meet
ing, Mr. Murray said, was made
after the CLIO received a cablegram
from the General Federation of
Jewish Labor in Palestine asking
for public representation at the