NAVAL COMPROMISE.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 28 September 1928, Page 5

NAVAL COMPROMISE.

UNNECESSARY SECRECY OBSERVED. WHAT THE PAPERS SAY. I diced Press Association —By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) (Australian Press Association.) LONDON, Sept, 27. Commenting on the I'oreign Office dpnia.l of the naval compromise rumomw, the. “Daily Telegraph’s” diplomatic correspondent says, suspicions would never have arisen but for the unnecessary secrecy in which the Anglo-French agreement was shrouded and the officials’ delay in contradicting the charges. The ‘‘Daily Chronicle,” in an editorial headed “This Way .Lies Madness,” says; “Bad work has been done for Britain in the past two months by the pitiful blundering of the Foreign Office. The mess is due to the Governent persistently subordinating our foreign policy to that of France, whereas the keynote of British policy ought first and foremost to be tne closest under-, standin.a; with America.” The “Daily Hera*i'’ »«ys: “No agreement or understanding existed in 1906. but we know that conversations between British and French experts then held provided for naval and military co-operation equivalent to an alliance.” .