TO SEEK PEACE.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 27 February 1928, Page 9

TO SEEK PEACE.

BRITAIN’S FOREIGN POLICY. PROBLEM oFtHE PACIFIC. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION - COPYRIGHT NEW YORK, Feb. 25. Addressing the Foreign Policy Association at Cincinatti, the British Ambassador, Sir Esme Howard, said tile first object, of Great Britain’s foreign policy was to seek peace and, wherever'necessary, help to enforce it. Predicting that the political development of the next century would be in ‘•a great measure transferred from the Atlantic, which is a. European and Atnencan ocean, to the Pacific, which

is American and Asiatic,” Sir Esme pointed out that British interests in the Pacific, as represented by Australia, New Zealand and India, would be vitally affected by any effort to destroy peace in that part of the world. The solid basis for the success of a four-Power- treaty in the Pacific, Sir E. Howard said, ‘‘must ever he the sense of common interest of the United States anti the British Commonwealth in maintaining peace in the Pacific region. Without such sense and understanding indeed, the whole of this Pacific region will be useless and of no avail.” As regards China and Russia, lie declared that Great Britain would patiently follow the policy ol ‘‘wait and see.”