U.S. PACIFIC POLICY

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXV, Issue 56, 18 February 1935, Page 9

U.S. PACIFIC POLICY

Adherence to Treaties FREEDOM OF THE SEAS By Telegraph —Press Assn.—Copyright. NEW YORK, Feb. 17. On the occasion of the visit of the Rt. Hon. R. B. Bennett, Canadian Prime Minister, to New York to attend the Canadian Society banquet, Mr Cordell Hull, Secretary of State, reiterated to-night America’s Pacific policy as one of “standing by the accomplishments of the Washington Conference of .1922’’ and the system of treaties there incorporated. Mr Hull and Mr Bennett were the principal speakers. Both emphasised the necessity of improving commercial relatione between America and the Dominion as contemplated in the projected negotiations for a reciprocal trade pact. Mr Hull extended his remarks to outline briefly the main portions of President Roosevelt’s foreign policy and particularly as it concerns the Far Eastern situation. In referring to the existing treaty system in the Far Eatt, which many observers hold Japan has violated in her Manchurian adventures, Mr Hull spoke of the “four pillars of a sound peace structure, —renunciation of war as an instrument of national policy the promise of non-aggreseion, consultation in the event of a threat to peace, and non-interference on our part with such measures of constraint as may be brought against a deliberate violator of the peace.” The last is taken to mean that America is prepared to renounce her traditional freedom of the seas policy.