PACIFIC PACT

Evening Star, Issue 22670, 9 June 1937, Page 11

PACIFIC PACT

MR LYONS'S PROPOSALS DEPENDENT ON MANY FACTORS Pres* Association—By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, June 8. The ' Morning Post,’ in a leader commenting bn Mr Lyons’s Pacific pact, remarks: “If it could be achieved it would indeed be a signal stroke of policy. Mr Lyons deserves high credit for bringing the idea to the threshold of practical politics, but it is necessary to realise that the fulfilment of it depends on many factors beyond the Empire’s control. It should be the aim of British foreign policy to remove whatever- obstacles are in the way,’’ I FORMULATING PROPOSALS LONDON, June 8. (Received June 9, at noon.) The principal delegates to the imperial Conference this morning completed the discussion on Mr Lyons’s Pacific pact project, during which Mr Lyons informed the conference that he intended discussing the plan with Mr Yoshida (Japanese Ambassador) in the afternoon. It is understood that diplomatic channels are now formulating proposals, on the completion of which further interchanges of _ views between England and the dominions will follow before definite approaches are made to the Pacific Powers’, which are unlikely until well after the termination of the conference. JAPAN FAVOURABLE. LONDON, June 8. (Received June 9, at 12.5 p.m.) Mr Yoshida and Mr Lyons discussed the Pacific pact. Mr Yoshida indicated that Japan was very friendly disposed to it.