NOT EVEN A TRUCE

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 91, 11 January 1929, Page 9

NOT EVEN A TRUCE

CONDEMNATION OF KELLOGG TREATY DISMAL PROPHECY BY Senator blaine BEGINNING OF STRUGGLE FOR WORLD DOMINION Suited Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Australian Press Association.) (Rec. January 10, 5.5 p.m.) ■ Washington, January 9. The Senate’s legislative deadlock over the Kellogg Treaty, the Cruiser Bill, and farm relief, became hopeless to-day, when efforts to reach a settlement were abandoned and opponents to the treaty threatened to start a filibuster which would indefinitely delay the measures. Meanwhile the settlement of other Bills grows more remote. . ' tl The reservationists continued the treaty debate, led by Senator Blaine, who urged that it was a one-sided declaration of British policy, certifying that nations control the Empire, " “with the recognition of the new British imperialism by America. The two great English-speaking nations of the world were preparing themselves for a contest in the division of the world, a competitive struggle for lands, commerce, raw materials, and resources. Concurrent with the treaty is the big navy programme. What other does it mean than war? . This treaty is not even a truce. It is the beginning of a most stupendous struggle for- world dominion and territorial aggrandisement. The clash may not come in our time, but the treaty portends early conflict.” He added: “First a commercial war would come, then one that none but an infinite mind can contemplate.” He said that the treaty would “legalise Britain’s betrayal of the promise of Egyptian independence.”