A NEW SPIRIT

Hawera Star, Volume XLIX, 4 September 1929, Page 5

A NEW SPIRIT

IN INTERNATIONAL POLICY. RESULTS OF HAGUE CONFERENCE RT. HON. SNOWDEN’S STORY | (Australian Press Association —United Service.) LONDON, Sept. 2. . “This is London calling the British Empire,” was the atmoufieer s intimation when the Rt. Hon. Philip Snowden took the microphone at 9.5 to-night to describe The Hague conference. Air Snowden’s story was largely a recapitulation of events already recorded but be disclosed that on the final night, at 8.45, lie put down under six heads Great < Britain’s maximum demands. M. Jasper (Belgium), who was acting as interineditary, returned in half ail*hour with an advance of £IOO,OOO. “I said, at the same rate of progress, you will reach our demands- by mid-1 night,” replied Mr Snowden. M. Jasper returned in a quarter ot an hour with another £50,000. “I said, ‘You are doing first rate, bo not weary in well doing.’ He said, ‘I cannot do more; you have emptied ou-v pockets.’ “In a kindly way I said, ‘Go through your pockets again, and be sure you find enough to meet what is between us.’ M. Jaspar replied, ‘You are too hard. I have never seen a man like you. You are what we in our country would call a type.’ “Someone,” continued the Chancellor, “had a brain wave, and we got what we wanted at midnight and the conference was saved.” In closing Air Snowden said: ‘ I think it will make a profound impression on oar relations in Europe. There will be no reversion to the spineless policy of recent yeans. We have reasserted Great Britain’s rights in international agreements and we have won the respect of the other Powers. It will liberate the countries of Europe toj pursue their economic reconstruction, but above all it brought a new spirit into international policy and will help to bring peace, which people so passionately desire.”