Washington, Sept. 24.
A split has developed in the Roosevelt camp over the question of granting certain important economic and political favours which the Soviet Ambassador to the United States is demanding as the price for bettering Soviet-American relations. the "Times Herald" declared today.
The Soviet Ambassador, Mr. Constantive Oumansky has made requisitions during the recent "behind the scene" talks with Mr. Cordell Hull, Secretary of State, and Mr. Sumner Welles. Under Secretary of State, and demanded that they be disposed of promptly.
The requests, the paper stated, i clude: The sale of $25,000000 worth of machine tools to the Soviet Union, the export of which would presently be subject to a virtual embargo. The sale or lease of a large number of tankers for the carrying of oil and petrol to Soviet Russia. The despatch' of technicians in order to supervise the construction of aviation petrol refineries.
Preferential treatment for Soviet citizens by the American Immigration authorities and the Department of Justice. I Mr. Cordell Hull, according to the imes Herald." considered the requests as unreasonable, while Mr. Harold Ickes, Secretary of the Interior, and Mr. Henry Morgenthau, Secretary of the Treasury, favoured the granting of substantial concessions for the boosting of American-Soviet trade and obtaining Soviet political cooperation in the Far East.—Domei.
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