“FOUR PILLARS”

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 18 February 1935, Page 5

“FOUR PILLARS”

SOUND PEACE STRUCTURE ROOSEVELT’S FOREIGN POLICY FAR EASTERN SITUATION (United Presß Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) NEW YORK, 16th February. On the occasion of tile visit of tile Rt, Hon. R, B. Bennett. Prime Minister of Canada, to New York to attend the Canadian Society banquet, Mr Cordell Hull, Secretary of State, reiterated to-night America’s Pacific policy as one “standing by the accomplishments of the Washington Conference, 1922,” and the system of treaties there incorporated. Messrs Hull and Bennett were the principal speakers, both emphasised the necessity of improving commercial relations 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 Roosevelt’s foreign policy, and particularly as it concerns the Far Eastern situation. In referring to the existing treaty system in the .Far East, which many observers hold Japan violated m her Manchurian adventures. Mr Hull spoke of the- “four pillars” of a sound peace structure: — (1) “Renunciation of war as an instru* ment of national policy. (2) “The promise of nomaggression; (2) “Consultation in the event of a thrust to peace. (4) “And non-interference on our part with such measures of constraint as may be brought against a deliberate violation of peace. The last is taken to mean that America is prepared to renounce her traditional freedom of the seas policy.