TROUBLE MAKING

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 8 March 1929, Page 9

TROUBLE MAKING

LATE EDITION

IN ANGLO=AMERICAN AFFAIRS.

A SECOND HAND STORY. OF FOREIGN SECRETARY’S SPEECH. (United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) (Australian Press Association.) Received 12.20 p.m. to-day. LONDON, March 7. The latest attempt to arouse discord in Anglo-American relations is a New York despatch from Geneva purporting to reveal that Sir Austen Chamberlain, in a confidential conference with British journalists, described the Kellogg pact as merely an American gesture suitable for Americans alone. Further, when he was asked regarding the pact’s effect on disarmament, Sir Austen said: “They are building 15 cruisers, aren’t tuey? Disarmament is least affected by the Washington manoeuvre.” Sir Austen Chamberlain, when shown the statement at Geneva, gave categorical denials. The British "United Press correspondent at Geneva says that Sir Austen Chamberlain did make a confidential statement to correspondents, but, fearing that he would be misinterpreted. forbade publication. This was obeyed except by one American correspondent, who got the storv second hand.