The Origin of Premier MacDonald’s Visit to America

The following article on the origin of the meeting between President Hoover and Prime Minister MacDonald three years ago is written by the veteran news­paper correspondent who may well claim that he was responsible for bringing about that historic event. Mr. Hoover himself has since declared that Mr. Bell’s “ ser­vice in the cause of international good­will has been unique in method and in­valuable in results,” while Charles G. Dawes, Ambassador to Great Britain at the time the meeting was arranged, has written that Mr. Bell’s “ work has been most notable In the furtherance of Inter­national peace and good understanding.” Still more direct is the testimony of W. L. Mackenzie King, former Prime Min­ister of Canada: “ I have personal knowl­edge of the extent to which the good of­fices of Mr. Bell contributed to the in­ception and successful outcome of the negotiations which made possible the London Naval Pact.” Mr. Bell was born in Indiana sixty-three years ago and has been engaged in newspaper work in America and abroad for fifty years.