KELLOGG TREATY

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 11 January 1929, Page 5

KELLOGG TREATY

“BEGINING OF STRUGGLE.”

SENATOR BLAINE’S CHARGE. “PORTENDS EARLY CONFLICT.” , ...K-u Press Association—By Electric ieiegiauu Copyright./ (Australian Press Association., WASHINGTON, Jan. 9. The Sfenate’s legislative deadlock over the Kellogg Treaty, the Cruiser Bill and the Farm Relief Bill became hopeless to-day, when efforts to reach a settlement were abandoned and the opponents of the treaty threatened to start a filibuster that would indefinitely delay the measures. Meanwhile a settlement of the other Bills grows more remote. The reservationists continued the treaty debate, led by Senator Blaine, who urged it was a one-sided declaration of British policy. “With the recognition of the new British Imperialism by America,” he said., “the two great English-speaking nations of the world are preparing themselves for a contest in the" division of the world. “The competitive struggle for lands, commerce, raw material and resource®, concurrent with the treaty, is a big navy programme. What other does it mean than war? This treaty is not even a truce; it is the beginning of a most stupendous struggle for the world- dominion and territorial aggrandisement. . The clash may not come in our time,, but the treaty portends early conflict.” “First commercial war would come, and then one that none but an infinite mind can contemplate,” Mr. Blaine added. He said the treaty would legalise Britain’s betrayal of the promise of Egyptian independence.