BRITISH POLICY

Grey River Argus, 27 February 1928, Page 5

BRITISH POLICY

In the Pacific

AMBASSADOR’S COMMENT.

(Received Feb 26th at 5.5 p.m.) NEW YORK, February 25.

Addressing the Foreign Policy Association at Cincinnati , the British Ambassador, Sir E. Howard, said the- first objectof Britain’s Foreign Policy was to seek peace, and whenever accessary to help to enforec it. Predicting that political development of the next century would be in “a great measure transferred from the Atlantic, which is an European and American ocean, to the Pacific, which is American and Asiatic. Sir E. Howard pointed out that British interests in the Pacific as represented by Australia and New Zealand and India would be vitally affected by any effort to destroy peace in that part of the world. The. solid for success of a four power treaty ir the Pacific, Mr Howard said “must ever be a sense of the common interest of the United States and British Commonwealth, in maintaining peace in the Pacific region, without which sense and understanding indeed the whole of this Pacific region would be helpless, and of no avail.’ As regards China and Russia, he declared that Great Britain would patiently follow a policy of wait and see.