PACIFIC POLICY

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22499, 18 February 1935, Page 9

PACIFIC POLICY

AMERICA AND CANADA PILLORS OF PEACE STRUCTURE A SIGNIFICANT PRONOUNCEMENT (United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) NEW YORK, February 16. (Received Feb. 17, at 10 p.m.) On the occasion of the visit of Mr R. B. Bennett to New York to attend the Canadian Society banquet Mr Cordell Hull (Secretary for State) reiterated to-night America’s Pacific policy as one of “ standing by the accomplishments of the- Washington Conference of 1922 ” and the system of treaties there incorporated. Mr Hull and Mr Bennett were the principal speakers and both emphasised the necessity of improving the commercial relations between America and the dominion as contemplated in the projected negotiations for a reciprocal trade pact. Mr Hull extended his remarks to outline briefly the main portions of Mr Roosevelt’s foreign policy, and particularly as it concerns the. Far Eastern situation. Referring to the existing treaty system in the Far East, which many observers hold that Japan has violated in her Manchurian adventures, Mr Hull spoke of the “ four pillars ” of any sound peace structure —“ renunciation of war as an instrument of national policy, the promise of non-aggression, consultation in the event of a threat to peace and non-interference on America’s part with such measures of constraint as may be brought against a deliberate violator of peace.”

This last is taken to mean that America is prepared to renounce her traditional freedom of seas policy. .