NO UNDUE DELAY.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 161, 10 July 1928, Page 7

NO UNDUE DELAY.

Britain And U.S. Anti-War

Pact. QUESTIONS IN COMMONS. (British Official Wireless.) {Received 1 p.m.) RUGBY, July 9. Further questions on the Government's attitude towards the United States proposal for a multilateral treaty for renunciation of war were answered in Parliament to-day by the Foreign Secretary, Sir Austen Chamberlain. He said that he was not yet able to state when the Government intended to sign the pact. He added that everything possible was, however, being done to hasten the dispatch of the reply to the latest Note of the United States Government. To a supplementary question suggesting that there had been undue delay, Sir Austen said that in his view it was more important that His Majesty's Government should be careful when undertaking new engagements not to broil; their old ones. In reply to a further question the Foreign Secretary said he was not prepared to answer without notice a question about the attitude of the Dominions as to which he was not yet ful'y informed. Consultations with thuni were by no means complete. He thought it would be convenient if be should post pone any account # of what was likely to be the British reply until he. was in a position to lay the papers on the table.