Rome, April 2.
'The 'International Preparatory' Conference of the second World Wheat Conference, which will meet in 1932, closed to-day amidst floods of mutually congratulatory eloquence over the important results achieved.
The most notable of thers results may be placed as follows:
—Propaganda to increase consumption in both countries who wheat is already consumed and in those where it is, consumed only in negligible quantities '2.—The use of Fersuasion and educational propaganda among farmers to induce them to reduce the acreage sown with wheat; —The convocation of a confercence of producing countries to formulate a common plan of how to Jdeal with the next harvest and the Present accumulated stocks. This Jconference will meet in London on May. 18 under the chairmanship of the High Commissioner for Canada recommendation to import ing countries to organize their purtional Institute of Agriculture Rome of the task of collecting and ce-ordinating statistical recommendations to' adheres tries to increase the financial at the disposal of the International Institute for this purpose.
The conference, in ad proved a motion recommen ernnients to encourage short term loans to farmers as far as possible and suggesting that transfers of pital for this purpose country and another may advantage ously take place. The conference finally approved a motion to the effect a discussion on pre- Fra ferential tariffs cannot usefully pursued ina multilateral confer vould best be left to direct through ordinary: nels between the vari-
Jous countries interested.
All the above resolutions unanimously accepted except by the! Soviet delegation, which glone lifted fa dissentient voice. Especially vi Tent were the Soviet objections the resolution on preferer tariffs which a Russian spokes declared would place one group of] countries in a privily with respect to all others.
Jdrew an indignant protest from the t Romanian delegate, who declared it had been repeatedly explained to) the Soviet delegates that no Europ: fan country would be excluded from eventual benefits of the proposed Preferential tariffs. Russia, he edged, had systematically voted Against all resolutions proposed to conference Delegates hope for practical xesults from this London meeting. relying the problem of slumping! Prices: There is some difference of ian, however, respecting the status "of the Conference. Some delegates maintain that the London meeting follows the Rome. meeting chronologically but otherwise is dis connected with Tome and the Into national Testitule of Agriculture, However, in an instrument drafted Jand adopted to-day giving an ac-
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