PACIFIC TREATY

Greymouth Evening Star, 11 March 1922, Page 5

PACIFIC TREATY

—< <s£££> • SENATORIAL OBJECTIONS. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.)

(XI LA kJ 11 nncxil wild — — , ’ WASHINGTON, March 9. 1 Tim first attack on the Four Power ‘ Treaty from the group of senators who ’ followed Mr. Wilson in the fight for 1 the League of Nations and the Versailles Treaty, as launched to-day when Senator Robinson, of Arkanas, denounc ed the treaty as a defensive alliance. Senator Robinson declared that it was singular that all domestic controversies were excluded. ‘ M e know,” he said, “that the real trouble in the past between the United States and Japan has arisen out of three matters, namely, immigration, race equality, and Japanese rigfiis in land ownership. . Yet the Treaty docs not provide a settlement of these causes of conflict. “Senator Robinson declared the treaty was dictated by Sir .Arthur Balfour, with the full sanction of the Japanese delegation. He asked Senators Lodge and Underwood to inform the. Senate who the real author of the treaty was. Both Senators admitted that they were unable to answer the question. Senator Lodge'said he understood that the treaty was the joint work of the heads of the Four delegations negotiating the pact. Senator Robinson said: —“There is no doubt in my mind that Britain and Japan will construe the treaty as a substitute for the Anglo-Japanese Alliance.” Senator Reed declared : is the product of British diplomacy, and Japanese cunning, and the pawn is the United States. CANADIAN CONSIDERATION. OTTAWA, March 10. The Prime Minister, Hon. McKenzie, King, to-day introduced into the House of Commons the Washington arms conference treaties, which were signed , by Sir Robert Borden, as a climax to < tho opening session of the fourteenth , Canadian parliament. Air. King in- j dicated that the question of the treaties’ ratification would be submitted to the House at an early session. \