POLICY OF ISOLATION

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 214, 10 September 1928, Page 7

POLICY OF ISOLATION

Anti-War Pact May Sound Its Doom In U.S.A. COOLEDGES MESSAGE. (Australian and N.Z. Press Association.) WASHINGTON, September 9. It is reported in official circles ui Washington that when the President, Mr. Coolidge, sends the Kellogg antiwar pact to the Senate for ratification ho may accompany it with a message, which in effect will sound the doom of the historic American policy of isolation. It is believed that in spite of Mr. F. B. Kellogg's warning that the pact must not be used to drag the United States into European disputes the President's message will explain that henceforth America must consider herself under an obligation to join Europe in any pacific attempts made to avert threatening wars. According to these reports the opinion of Mr. Coolidge is that tlie Kellogg pact provides the necessary machinery for such comparative peace efforts. Unquestionably, however, the message will make it clear that the pact in i<o sense binds the United States to a definite course of action, or to go to war in any circumstances, and that, to thst extent at least, the United States wil) continue to hold aloof from Europe. VIEWS EXCHANGED. POWERS TO CONFER. j (British Official Wireless.) (Received 12 noon.) | RUGBY, September 9. The German Chancellor, Dr. Mueller, accompanied by Herr von Schubert. Under-Secretary, at Wilhelmstrasse. yesterday had a conversation at Geneva with Lord Cushendun. Acting Foreign Secretary. It is understood that the views exchanged were regarding the question pf the Rhineland evacuation, on which subject Lord Cushendun explained the British Government's attitude. Press reports from Geneva state that a meeting is contemplated of representatives of the Governments interested in the Rhineland queslon.