"AMERICAN GESTURE"
DID SIR AUSTEN SAY SO??
CATEGORICAL DENIAL
United press Association—By Sleclrlo Tele
traph—CopjrUbt. Australian Press AmocUMob.
(Received Bth March, noon.) LONDON, 7th March
The latest attempt to promote discord in Anglo-American relations-is found in a New York despatch from Geneva purporting to reveal that Sir" Austen Chamberlain in a confidential conference with British journalists described the Kellogg Pact as merely an A'mericaa gesture suitable to Americans alone. Further, when asked as to the "effect of the Pact on disarmament, Sir Austen said: "They are building 15 cruisers, aren't they? Disarmament is .at least affected by the Washington manoeuvre!"
Sir Austen Chamberlain, shown the statement at Geneva, gave categorical denials. .
The British United Press correspondent at Geneva says that Sir -Austen Chamberlain did make a confidential statement to correspondents, but fearing .that it would be misinterpreted forbade publication. This veto was obeyed, except by one American who got the story second-hand.
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 55, 8 March 1929, Page 9
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