BRITAIN AND AMERICA.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19953, 23 May 1928, Page 11

BRITAIN AND AMERICA.

TREATY NEGOTIATIONS. QUESTION IN THE COMMONS. British Wireless. RUGBY. May 21. The Foreign Secretary, Sir Austen Chamberlain, was asked in the House of Commons whether the United States Government had submitted any proposals for the conclusion of conciliation and arbitration treaties between America and Britain on similar lines to the treaty which had just been signed between America and Germany. In reply, the Minister said the United States Government had made proposals for a new arbitration treaty to replace that of 1908, which would expire on June 4. These proposals were receiving careful consideration at the hands of the British Government. No proposal had been made by the United States Government for a conciliation treaty, because there was already such a treaty in force between the United States and Britain, namely, the AngloAmerican treaty regarding the establishment of a Peace Commission. This was signed at Washington on December 14, 1914. Sir Austen said he saw no reason why this treaty, or the conciliation treaty now being negotiated between the United States and a number of foreign countries, should be abrogated if, as he hoped would be the case, the proposed treaty for the renunciation of war became an accomplished fact.