ANGLO-FRENCH PACT

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18455, 17 January 1922, Page 5

ANGLO-FRENCH PACT

s . . „ •» •..rr ;i . POSITION OF THE DQMTOTONB. 'J - —T" " * DANGER OF DIVIDED <X>UNSEa^ J ‘ y C \ (FbOM OtJE OWW COEEESPONDENT.I ‘ ; WELLINGTON, JaraiM*. 16. ‘ . Mr A. S.‘ Malooim, M.P. for Clutia, to- ‘. night drew attention 'to the proposed Anglo-French Pact and the provision that*,), the dominions should have power t°. opn-.v ,tj tract themselves out of it He saw danger* -j he said, in the possibility that tho Empire i r which should be one and indivisible, ragfata, bo divided on such a question;.-And -drib •’ dominion ’ might be found votingVdne wuy? ■ and another another way. He hoped that" the Rum® Minister would see tost Nov*., Zealand was represented as unfavourable'-to 4 . the proposal and that it should have power'! =1 to contract itself out of an arrangement. ipode by the British Government on a>' • matter 'of foreign policy. .>• The Prime Minister- replied that ha bad"./' had nO notice of the memibor’a intention.'tp, ! mention the matter., and that it was'worthy of more Attention than he oould give :it' at.', ■ a moment’s notice. His own mind, ever, -vyaa pretty well made up. Hpr-Wa* ? , very strongly opposed to anything-.,in. tljeyi.V way of. divided counsels within the Empire.: when arrangements with foreign .-nation* were being mada He had thought • from. the : commencement that that was one of ‘ the dangers of the. League. of He felt that'it was,much more important that ‘ the Empire should speak with one- voice and'J with no uncei-tain sound tlian that there should be a possibility of different porta ' voting different. Waya If given the option- _ I unity he nught, as representing Nowy-ZeSf- 2 ’... land, let the Prime Minister of Great Bn-\ , tain- know how he felt on such a'matter.^’