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White House Statement About an International Conference on World Trade.

September 15, 1931

CABLE DISPATCHES set forth that the London Daily Herald has announced that President Hoover is considering a proposal to call a world conference to deal with world trade. The announcement is erroneous. The facts are these: The Herald telephoned the White House yesterday asking that the President comment on its editorial advocating such a conference. I said that there was no comment to be made here. The Herald asked if the editorial would be considered. I replied that if the American press carried the editorial it would be read. That was the extent of the telephone conversation.

Herbert Hoover, White House Statement About an International Conference on World Trade. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/207594

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