SECURITY PROBLEM

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVIII, Issue 52, 13 February 1928, Page 6

SECURITY PROBLEM

GENEVA COMMITTEE’S REPORT REGIONAL PACTS ADVOCATED. STATEMENTS EXAMINED. Geneva, February 11. A voluminous report has been is sued by a committee under the chairmanship of Dr. Benes, which is sitting at Prague and received and examined statements from the Governments respecting security, including the British statement, which clearly influenced the committee. The reuort states that 85 treaties of concilation and arbitration are in existence at present, binding 38 States. The committee seggests that regional pacts should be encouraged on the lines of the Rhjneland pact, and flexible model pacts should be prepared. These should include clauses in reference to the exclusion of war; secondly, the organisation of Pacific procedure for the settlement of disputes; thirdly, a svstern of mutual assistance linked up with the functions of the League Council. The report only consitutes a basis for discussion at the forthcoming t-e curity Commission. The Soviet has announced that it is sending an observer to the league Committee of Security and Arbitration on February 20.—(A. and N.Z.) PAN-AMERICAN UNION. NOT ANOTHER LEGUE. Havana, February 10. The Pan-American conference defeated a resolution, twelve against six, whjch would have given the PanAmerican Union political power and made it practically an American League of Nations. U.S. TO OFFER ANOTHER TREATY TO GERMANY. Washington, February 11. An arbitration treaty similar to that recentv signed by France and the United States will be offered Germany soon after the Senate acts upon the French pact. There at present is no arbitration treaty beween the United Stales and Germany, because those countries did not sign such an agreement when Mr Elihu Root negotiated a score of arbitration pacts in 1908 and 1909.—(A. and N.Z.)