INTERNATIONAL POLITICS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18199, 21 March 1921, Page 5

INTERNATIONAL POLITICS

M VWIANI’S AMERICAN MISSION. DIPLOMATIC CIRCLES ACTIVE. - Frees Association—By Telegraph—Copyright* NEW YORK, March 18. The New York Times states editorially,, that it does not require miraculous detective ability to perceive that importantnegotiations are afoot between France and the United States. The mission of Me Viviani must be something more than a mere visit of courtesy; or are the visible, activities of the French Ambassador ah Washington to be passed off as simply routine? It is also, reported • that the British Embassy is not filled with diplomats who are asleep, and the repre-r sentatives of Japan are ready to pick up the broken threads of their international business with the State Department. We may next hear that the Italians are stirring. It begins to look, all told, as if wo might presently see in Washington a kind of adjourned meeting of the Paris Peaqq. Conference.—A. and N.Z. Cable. \ BRITAIN AND AMERICA. STRAINED RELATIONS. ADJUSTABLE BY~CONVERSATIONS. LONDON, March 18. Lord Robert Cecil, speaking at a luncheon at which Anglo-American, relatione were discussed, said after, the' armistice he thought that,a new chapter bad been, opened between the two nations. ■ Bethought they were heading for a great peace movement, in which international co-operation would supersede competition. Unhappily two years of peace had brought; a greater disappointment than the previous four years of war. Anglo-Anlencaih relations were strained by questions relating to Ireland, the navy, oil, and cables, but all were adjustable by conversations.—A. and N.Z. Cable.