WASHINGTON TREATIES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18020, 20 February 1922, Page 7

WASHINGTON TREATIES.

OPPONENTS IN SENATE.

RESERVATIONS PROPOSED.

THREE TO PACIFIC PACT. jfAVAL TREATY CRITICISED. By Teleirraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received 5.30 p.m.) A , and SX. WASHINGTON. .Feb. 1&. Though it •■ authoritatively learned that the Presided! sees no necessity or justification for reservations to the Pacific Treaty, irreconcilable senators are preparing a programme "= : '' 'he object of attaching reservations i. the pact, and it is possible that tbey will have the support of the majority of the Foreign Relations Committee-

Mr. R. P- Brandegeo (Republican), who was one n: the bitterest opponents of Mr, Wilson's pe.u-e programme, has announced his intention to demand reservations, stipulating, firstly, that the United States j s not oldiged morally to use force under \rticle 2 ot the Pacific Treaty, secondly, that no international arrangements or adjustments, made through conferences or the signatories be binding without the consent of Congress, and, thirdly, that if anv one of the four signatory Powers violates the treaty the others shall be automatically released from their obligations. Mr. Hiram Johnson is unfavourable to the Naval Treaty. He questions Britain's rich: to fortify Singapore and Japan's right to t'oitit'y her own naval bases while the United States can have no fortifications east of Hawaii.