London, Oct. 10.
Sir Henry Deterding, ' director-general of the Royal Duich-Shell oit combine, in an exclusive interview with the United Press Associations on his return from a visit to the United States, declared that in his opinion
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"President Roosevelt's programme is "I have read a lot of European criticism of the New Deal" and of the so-called American continued Sir Henry, "but T impressed with it In fact, much of it seems to me in dubious taste.
don't deny that Mr. Roosevelt has a tremendous task, but he ts on the right track. His biggest problem now is to find key men' to handle the various segments of the whole immense problem: they must be men of outstanding ability, capable of superb team-work and, of course, absolutely loyal to him. That Is net as easy as it sounds.
"But his instinct seems to be to reduce every problem to its simplest elements, and that is the mark of wisdom.
"For you will finé—when you are as old as 1 am—what every' worthwhile proposition is simple, and that every dubious proposition is complicated, and high-sounding, and involved, Of course, some people like to dabble in complicated things: that explains why, in every stock market ramp in the world, the chief victims are always doctors and propaganda now coming out of that country. They want cheap silver because they are erecting, as fast as they can, mills and plants in China which will compote with the western world: as they will pay wages in silver they want cheap silver.
"Of course, that is their affair, but they really ought not to pretend that they are speaking for China a: 'a whole, for they are not. If Prof. Rogers discovers their particular bias, he won't misled."—United Press.
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