“FIRST-CLASS ROW”

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 17 October 1928, Page 11

“FIRST-CLASS ROW”

OVER GERMAN COLONIES.

POST WAR RECORDS. COLONEL HOUSE’S PAPERS. United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) (Australian. Press Association.) Received 2.5 p.m. to-day. LONDON, Oct. 17. Illuminating passages occur in the intimate papers of Colonel House, which are being published in November. Among the entries dated March, 1919, one records the visit of Viscount Chinda and Baron Makino, who com- 1 plained that they were having no end of trouble with Mr. Hughes, who would not consent to anything satisfying Japan’s desires, and threatened that if anything were passed by the committee he would bring the matter up at a plenary conference and raise a storm of protest in the Dominions and the western United States. Colonel House reveals occasionally sharp clashes of opinion with Mr. Hughes on the subject of annexation of the German colonies. The Dominion Premiers insisted that the colonies conquered by them should be annexed. Messrs Hughes and Massey demanded the colonies south of the equator as necessary to the protection of those Dominions A few days later Colonel House records how “Robert Cecil and- myself discussed the colonial question, and agree absolutely. Strangely enough, coincident therewith the President was having a first-class row with Mr. Lloyd George, M. Clemenceau, and Messrs Hughes and Massey, and it looked as though the whole thing had gone to pot. However, the row may do some good and teach them all a lesson.” - The last reference to Mr. Hughes is on April 18-19, in which Colonel House says: “The fear persisted up to the last moment that Mr. Hughes would make an anti-Leageu speech, but everything passed almost before the conference could catch- its breath.”