THE HARDING CONFERENCE

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 15 August 1921, Page 8

THE HARDING CONFERENCE

RECENT EXCHANGES

A CRITICAL TIME

BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT '; LONDON, Aug. 12. The Pans correspondent of the Daily Express says that even Silesia has not diverted the thoughts of British and American delegates at the Supreme Council from Pacific problems. Recent

exchanges of opinion between the Imperial Conference and Washington were coloured by the Entente's Paris relations. The British and American diplomatic machinery has not been working smoothly, and unless a better method is devised the Washington Conference, on which the whole future of the human race during the next century depends, will not be under the best auspices. After referring to America's rejection of the British, proposal to hold a preliminary Pacific conference in London, enabling the Dominions' representatives to attend, the correspondent emphasises that Britain would not have laid herself open to a second rebuff by proposing a preliminary conirerence in Canada if diplomatic exchanges had not misled her into the belief that a conference in Canada would be acceptable to America. The correspondent concludes that both the Bntish Foreign Office and the American diplomatists must improve their luisaon system, or.the whole peace of the world may still be wrecked on punctilio, lack of sympathy, and moral courage. - WASHINGTON, Aug. 12. The* Secretary of State (Mr Hughes) will lead the American delegation at the armament conference. * • , TOKIO, Aug. 12. * Admiral Kato, commandant of the Nava Staff College, and leader of the JNaval Mission to America and Europe recently, has been chosen as the naval j delegate to the Washington Confer- ! eoce. j