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America's contributions to the pourparlers, Washington is wait ing only for an opportunity for
London is beginning to get the Coronation atmosphere. exchange of concrete pro- carpenters and their up-to-date The posals.. President Roosevelt has associates who make geometrical asked for "direct dealing and co-figures with hollow iron poles operation" to obtain a solution of have been busy providing the the world's problems. Early this framework to the spectacle. But year Mr. Runciman went to Washington and conferred with bidding - look
a framework wears a bleak, for- the President and Mr. Cordell wind, and leaves the spectator in a north-east Hull. A few weeks ago the cold. Much warmer is the recep- Canadian Prime Minister, Mr. tion Mackenzie King, spent
given to the contin- time in general discussions with able world leaders and rulers some gents and delegations and not- President Roosevelt.
from overseas who are begin- ning to arrive. The keenest in- To consider them as negotia-terest has been aroused by the tions woud be a delusion. They military contingents from the have all been informal, discur- four corners of the Empire. sive and exploratory. Mr. Runci-They will number 1,641, all told, man and Mr. Mackenzie King when the last of the Dominion however, emphasised that they and Colonial troops are assem- found at Washington the friend- bled. Those who liest
remember feeling
both Queen Victoria's first Jubilee, towards Canada and Great Britain, and it just half a century ago, will re- is admitted that in the Canadian tall the thrill which the first. Minister's talks, they discussed sight of Colonial troops not only the problems of the were all Colonials then gave they American continent but the to London. The Great War European situation. Trade rela-familiarised a later generation : tions were the primary purpose with the sight, but familiarity of Mr. Runciman's journey to does not dull the edge of wel- Washington. He was very cau- come. It is as hearty as ever tious in reporting the results of land as genuine.