MAINTENANCE OF PEACE KEYSTONE OF OUR POLICY ABROAD

Manawatu Times, Volume LIII, Issue 6543, 27 February 1928, Page 7

MAINTENANCE OF PEACE KEYSTONE OF OUR POLICY ABROAD

Sir E. Howard Stresses Pacific’s Importance RESPONSIBILITY SHARED BY AMERICA [By Electric Cable-Copyright.] (Ausi. and JM.Z. Cable Association.] (Received Sunday, 5.5 p.m.) NEW YORK, Feb. 25. ... Addressing a Foreign Policy Association at Cincinnati! the British Ambassador, Sir Esme Howard, said that the first object of Britain’s foreign policy to seek peace, and whenever necessary to help to enforce it. Predicting that political development .in the next century would be in a “great measure transferred from the Atlantic), which is a European and American, ocean to the Pacific, which is an American and Asiatic," Sir Esme Howard pointed out that British interests in the Pacific as represented by Australia, New Zealand, and India, would bo vitally affected by any effort to destroy peace in that part of the world. The solid basis for success of a fourPowcr treaty in the Pacific, Sir Esme Howard said, “must over be the sense of common interest 1 of the United States and the Britkh Commonwealth in maintaining peace in the Pacific region, without which sense and understanding ideed the whole of ths Pacific region would bo useless and of no avail." As regards China and Russia he declared that Great Britain would patiently follow a policy of wait and see.