WAITING POLICY

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 8 January 1925, Page 5

WAITING POLICY

ADOPTED BY AMERICA

BY CABLE-PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT AVASHINGTON, Jan. 6.

Continuing further to make clear the attitude of the administration cowards Senator Borah’s resolution, asking President Coolidge to call an international conference to consider economic problems and further disarmament, AVhite House intimates that the United States will take no action to call an armament conference until the decision of the League of Nations is announced concerning that body’s intentions to call such a conference. President Coolidge is especially desirous of takng the initiative in calling an assemblage further to limit naval Armaments, particularly since one of the pieliminary conditions towards such action, namely, the institution of the Dawes plan, has already been fulfilled. Congress is expected to renew the authorisation expressed in the Naval Appropriation Act of 1925 that the President should negotiate with Britain, Japan, France and Italy relative to, limiting the construction of all types and sizes of surface and sub-surface craft of 10,000 tons and less, and aircraft. also the number of men to be permitted in the navies of the Powers concerned. President Coolidge is definitely willing to act upon this mandate. , White House advances further reasons for objections to an economic conference, namely, that Eurone is not yet ready to submit to the deliberations of such a conference many ouestions which, unless they were discussed, would seriouslv minimise the conference’s potential accomplishments.