THE PACIFIC PACT

Evening Star, Issue 17925, 22 March 1922, Page 4

THE PACIFIC PACT

SENATE OPPOSITION.

BORAH’S STATEMENT REFUTED

f*rcsa Association—By Telegraph—Copyright

WASHINGTON, March 21,

(Received March 22, at 9.20 a.m.)

Mr P. D. Cravath unequivocally denied the statements attributed to him by Senator Borah. Ho said that Senator Borah’s speech was pure romance. Despite Mr Cravath’s and Sir Auckland Gcddes’s denial in connection with tho Pacific Treaty, the opponents of tho treaty continue to profess the belief that eccrct agreements concerning tho treaty exist. Senator Shields intends to move that the treaty be sent bad: to tho Foreign Rehitiona'Committee, with instructions to summon Mr Cravath, Air Root, and Mr Hughes, and to question them concerning treaty negotiatkmsY-A. and N.Z. Cable.

[Senator Borah mado tho charge that a secret understanding had been reached by Great Britain and tho United States to 00-operata against Japan in the case of trouble in tho Far East. Senator Borah said that ho based hie charge on a speech by Ah’ Paul D. Cravath, in which tho latter said that ho had been told by every member of the American delegation that a thorough understanding existed between the American and British Governments in res poet to co-oporation between the two fleets if necessary. Senator Borah said that the same information had reached him from Europe.]