PEACE POLICY

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 123, 18 February 1935, Page 9

PEACE POLICY

Cordell Hull Outlines American Attitude FAR EAST QUESTION Country May Renounce Traditional Stand COMING TRADE TALKS WITH CANADA By Telegraph.—Press Assn.— Copyright. (Received February 17, 7 p.m.) Washington, February 17. On the occasion of the visit of Mr. R. B Bennett, Prime Minister of Canada, to New York to attend a Canadian Society banquet, Mr. Cordell Hull, Secretary of State, reiterated to-night America’s pacific policy as one “standing by the accomplishments of the Washington Conference 7 of 1922” and the system of treaties there incorporated. Mr. Hull and Mr. Bennett wore the principal speakers. Both emphasised tlie necessity of Improving commercial relations between America and the .Dominion as contemplated, in the projected negotiations for a reciprocal trade pact. Mr. Hull extended his remarks to outline briefly the main portions of President Roosevelt’s foreign policy and particularly as it concerns the Far Eastern situation. In referring to the existing treaty system in the Far East, which many observers hold that Japan violated in her Manchurian adventures, Mr. Hull spoke of “four pillars” of a sound peace structure: (1) Renunciation of war as an instrument of national policy. (2) Promise of non-aggression. (3) Consultation in the event of a threat to peace. (4) Non-interference fin America’s part with such measures of constraint as may be brought against a deliberate violator of the peace. The last is taken to mean that America is prepared to renounce her traditional freedom of the seas policy.