"PASTORAL SENATORS"

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 26, 31 January 1923, Page 5

"PASTORAL SENATORS"

*BEGIN TO SPEAK THEIR MIND.

WASHINGTON, 29th January. Senator Kenneth D. M'Kellar, in a speech in the-Senate, said that the British Government should have disavowed Mr. Stanley Baldwin's statement in which he asserted that the United States Senate was made up of members of agricultural and pastoral communities who did not realise the existing position regarding the meaning of international debt. ■ . ■

"I canno\ believe that the British people entertain the views which Mr. Baldwin expresses," said' Senator M'Kellar. "They have always been a debtpaying people. They have not treated their obligations as 'a scrap of paper,' and it is inconceivable that these self' •respecting people will permit one of their own number to utter these uncalled-for, untrue, discourteous words."

Senator M'Kellar demanded the disclosure of the identity of the American diplomats who gave assurances that debtfunding would be carried out under cer.tain conditions not published, which a London newspaper says provided fur ?! to 3 per cent, interest, or £20,000 ) r'X. 10 annually. Concluding) . Senator M'Kellar said: "Where is the great Ambassador Harvey? Why does he not raise his /oi.:a on .behalf of the Government and the American people? Has he lost his n.-.m permanently? He never seems on hand when, something real is going on?"