IN DANGER

Evening Post, Volume CII, Issue 39, 15 August 1921, Page 7

IN DANGER

MEETING OF THE POWERS

HITCH IN DIPLOMATIC MACHINERY

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(AUSTRALIAN ■ NEW ZEALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION.) LONDON, 12th August. The Paris correspondent of the Daily Express says: "Even Silesia has not diverted thought by the British and American attendants at the Supreme Council from tho Pacific problems; Recent exchanges of opinion between the Imperial Conference and Washington were coloured by the Entente's Paris relations. The British and American diplomatic machinery!has not been working smoothly, and unless a better method is devised the Washington Conference, on which the whole future of the human race during the next century depends, will not meet under the best auspices."

After referring to America's rejection of the British proposal to hold a preliminary Pacific Conference in London, enabling the Dominions' representatives to attend, the correspondent emphasises that Britain would not have laid herself open to a second rebuff by proposing a, preliminary conference in Canada if diplomatic exchanges had not misled her into the belief that a Canadian -Conference would be acceptable to America. The correspondent concludes: .' 'Both the British Foreign Office and American diplomatists must improve the liaison system or the whole peace of the world may still be wrecked on punctilio and lack of sympathy and moral courage."