STEP BY STEP

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 54, 12 September 1928, Page 11

STEP BY STEP

PROCESS OF NEGOTIATION Australian Press Association—United Service (Received 12th September, noon.) GENEVA, 11th September. Lord Cushendun gave the fullest possible assurance that the British Government intended to carry out the lettor and spirit of its Covenant obligations. It was anxious to find a mon ground, and had therefore earnestly striven to reconcile tho British and French views regarding naval disarmament, regarding which they had reached a compromise. When negotiating with a number of States it was necessary to eliminate tho differences one by one, and the results could only bo provisional, if unacceptable by other States who were equally entitled to express their views. It then might be necessary to search for a fresh basis of common action. Ho felt confident that an agreement was possible, if all were less distrustful of each other. "If tho critics were- less ready to attribute to us hidden designs and ulterior motives, of. which wo are entirely innocent, and which do not exist outside the critic's imagination." He concluded with the observation that what tho world chiefly needed was less suspicion and distrust and greater confidence among tho nations, which ho hoped would bo one of the results of the Kellogg Pact.