THE PACIFIC PACT

Evening Star, Issue 17926, 23 March 1922, Page 6

THE PACIFIC PACT

SENATOR BORAH REBUKED. Press Association —By Telegraph— Copyright, WASHINGTON. March 21. Mr Hughes struck back sharply at tho Senate critics of tho Pacific Pact in, a letter addressed to Senator Lodge, which the latter read to the Senate. Mr Hughes said he noticed that the latest charge made in the debate on the Four-Power Treaty was that there was a secret agreement* or an understanding between _ the American Government and Great Britain respecting Pacific matters. “Any such statement is absolutely false,” ho said. “We have no secret understandings _or agreements.with Great Britain in relation to the Four-Power Treaty or any other matter. Penult me to express the hope that the American delegates will bo spared further aspersions upon their veracity and honor.” _ , White House emphatically denies that the United States has entered into a secret understanding with any country. President Harding believes that it would have been tho height of perfidy for tho United States to invito Japan to- Washington and then betray her confidence by making a secret agreement with Great Britain.—A. and N.Z. Cable.