Economic 'Conference Preparations The suggestion circulated by most of the
daily Papers on Tuesday that the Prime Minister, as prospective President of the coming World Economic Conference (actual President according to some accounts) was both concerned and annoyed' at the slow progress of the preparations for the ' Conference is hard to comprehend. Mr. MacDonald is, of course, ' neither *President nor President-elect of the Conference. Since it is to meet in London that position will no doubt be offered him, but it is obviously tactless to speak at present as if his relation to the Conference were any different from, for example, M. Herriot's. Each of the two committees, moreover, whose delays are being censured had on it a British official who con- curred in its decisions and apparently had no instructions to do otherwise,—which seems to augur dislocation in Whitehall rather than at Geneva. The fact is that the Conference will be useless unless the Governments go into it with some clear ideas, and the present adjournment IS dictated by the need for such clarification.
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