MORE TREATIES

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 119, 22 May 1928, Page 7

MORE TREATIES

BRITAIN AND AMERICA. (British Official Wireless.) (Received 12 doou.) RUGBY, May 21. Sir Austen Chamberlan, Foreign Secretary, was asked in the House of Commons whether the United States Government had submitted any proposals for the conclusion of tho conciliation and arbitration treaties between America and Great Britain, on similar lines to the treaty which had just been signed between America and Germany. Sir Austen said that the United States Government had made proposals for a new arbitration treaty to replace the Anglo-American Arbitration Treaty of 1908, which would expire on June 4. These proposals, he said, were receiving careful consideration at the hands of the British Government.

No proposal had been made by the Unitd States Government for a conciliation treaty because there was already such a treaty in force between the United States and Great Britain, namely, the Anglo-American Treaty, regarding the establishment of a peace commission, which was signed at Washington on December 14, 1914.

He saw no reason why this treaty or the Conciliation Treaty now being negotiated between the United States and a number of foreign countries should be abrogated if, as he hoped would be the case, the proposed treaty for the renunciation of war bcame an accomplished fact.