OUT TO SUCCEED.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 53, 4 March 1930, Page 7

OUT TO SUCCEED.

NAVAL AGREEMENT.

U.S. Delegates Will Sit Till

Settlement Reached.

TIME WELL SPENT.

(British Official Wireless.)

(Received 12.30 p.m.)

RUGBY, March 3. Mr. Charles Adams, Secretary of the United States Navy and delegate to the conference, in a speech broadcast to America from London yesterday, said that reconciliation of the British, French and Italian viewpoints had been delayed by the failure of the French Government, but nothing has been lost by that except time, for when the French delegates came back discussion of these matters could begin again Avhere they left off some daye ago. He added: "We are here to sit till we settle. We believe that we and the Japanese are coming nearer to an understanding. "We have as much time as anybody and America can afford considerable patience, for it is well to remember that several of the other nations represented here have much more complicated problems of security than we have, and a few days more or less is nothing compared with the value of arriving at a solution in a calm and unruffled state of mind." Mr. Adams said that America wanted a fleet no larger than was necessary for practical security. If, as is generally expected, M. Tardieu's new Government receives the confidence of the French Chamber on Wednesday, the French delegates will cross to London on the following day, and the full proceedings of the conference will be resumed on Friday.

A meeting of the heads of delegations in London which the French Ambassador, M. Fleuriau, will attend, will be held to-morrow morning. The experts' committee, who have -been considering special vessels, at their meeting to-day concluded their report, which will be presented to the first committee when the full conference reassembles.