"NOT A SURPRISE"

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 56, 9 March 1929, Page 7

"NOT A SURPRISE"

SIR AUSTEN'S REMARKS

AGAINST KELLOGG PACT

BORAH TALKS'FREELY

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WASHINGTON, 7th March.

Senator Borah has issued an important statement on tho alleged observations by Sir Austen Chamberlain on the Kellogg Pact before the confidential meeting of British journalists. The statement "Sir Austen Chamberlain's remarks cannot be said to be a surprise. It has been pretty well known that ho has always been against the treaty. He camo very near torpedoing it in his diplomatic communications, somewhat as he came nea"r torpedoing Locarno by his secret AngloFrench naval conference. Need Sir Austen be surprised that'the United States should build cruisers when men in authority like himself jeer at the peaceful methods of settling international controversies? The best friends of the big navies are tho men who jeer at all tho efforts to settle international controversies'by any other'means than that of the navy, but I venture the opinion that his views do not represent tho views of the English people. I do not think that his stab will prove fatal." , - •