ERRONEOUS IMPRESSION

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 70, 23 March 1926, Page 7

ERRONEOUS IMPRESSION

ACCORDING TO WASHINGTON.

NEW YORK, 22nd March. The New York "Times" Washington correspondent telegraphs to-night:— "An entirely erroneous impression appears to prevail in Europe concerning gloomy representions said to have been made to the Washington Government of conditions affecting the League of* Nations and the general European political situation. Europe seems to have obtained the idea that the Washington Government not only received such pessimistic reports from Mr. A. B. Houghton (United States Ambassador in London) when he was in Washington last week, but disclosed these reports to the newspapers. These impressions are without warrant. They are an exemplification of the axiom that denial never overtakes error. "The Government made no disclosures concerning what it learned from Mr. Houghton. It denies that anything Mr. Houghton communicated to it was disclosed to any unofficial personmeaning to newspapers—nor *is there any substantial basis for assertions that the pessimistic account of European conditions circulated in Washington was a summarisation of what Mr. Houghton told the Secretary of State (Mr. F. Kellogg) or President Coolidge. It is realised that the enmies of American participation in the World Court will seek to make capital out of the Houghton incident, if it may be called that."