QUALIFIELD PACT
QUALIFIED STIMSON'S SUGGESTION MERELY CONSULTATIVE WASHINGTON, 27th March. The possibility of obtaining a fivePower naval agreement in London was still left remote to-day, despite Mr. Stimson's statement offering y, consultative pact, providccl.it involved no obligation to render military assistance. Press dispatches from Paris indicate that little importance is attached to Mr. Stimson's suggestion by tho French Government. .The Acting-Secretary of State, Mr. Cotton, after ■ a conference with Presi-dent,Hoover'to-day, expressed the view that it was hardly iikely that a consultative pact will bring any reduction of tonnage asked for by tho French. The United States would not consider a military guarantee under any circumstances, since it was''felt that it would be provocative of international misunderstanding, as well as involve America in undertakings which the people would never underwrite.
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 74, 28 March 1930, Page 11
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129QUALIFIELD PACT Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 74, 28 March 1930, Page 11
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