ANGLO-AMERICAN PACTS.

Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 19317, 23 May 1928, Page 9

ANGLO-AMERICAN PACTS.

* NEGOTIATIONS FOR TREATIES. (BRITISH OFFICIAL WIBILE3S.) EUGBY, May 21. Sir Austen Chamberlain was asked in the House of Commons whether the United States Government had submitted any proposals for the conclusion of conciliation and arbitration treaties between America and Great Britain on similar lines to the Treaty which had just been signed between America and Germany. He said that the United States Government had made proposals for a new arbitration treaty to replace the AngloAmerican Arbitration Treaty of 1908, which would expire on June 4th. These proposals were receiving careful consideration at. the hands of the Britisli Government. No proposal had been made by the United 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 the Peace Commission, which was signed at Washington on December 14th, 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, Bhould be abrogated, if, as he hoped would be the case, the proposed Treaty for the renunciation of war became an accomplished fact.