DISARMAMENT

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18324, 15 August 1921, Page 5

DISARMAMENT

WASHINGTON CONFERENCE ; PACIFIC PROBLEMS. ANGLO-AMERICAN DIFFERENCES. Press Assooiaticn—By Telegraph—Copyright PARIS, August 12. (Received Aug. 14, at 5.5 p.m.) The Daily Express Paris correspondent says even the Silesian problem has not diverted thought by the British and American attendants at the Council from the Pacific problems. Recent exchanges of opinion between the Imperial Conference and Washington were coloured by the Entente’s Paris relations. The British and American diplomatic machinery has not been working smoothly, and unless a better method is devised the Washington Conference, on which the whole future of the human race during the next century depends, will not meet under the best auspices. After referring to America’s rejection of the British proposals to hold a preliminary Pacific Conference in London, enabling the dominions’ ronresentatives to attend, the correspondent emphasises that Great Britain would not have laid herself open to a second rebuff by proposing a preliminary conference in Canada if the diplomatic exchanges had not misled her into the belief that a Canadian conference would be acceptable to America. The correspondent concludes: “Both the British Foreign Office and the American diplomatists must improve their liaison system or the whole peace of the world may still be wrecked on punctilio, lack of sympathv, and moral courage.”— A. and N.Z. Cbble.