AMENDED TREATIES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24413, 26 September 1940, Page 8

AMENDED TREATIES

AMERICA AND DOMINIONS DIRECT NEGOTIATIONS WASHINGTON, Sept. 24. (Received Sept, 25, at 7 p.m.) The Senate Foreign Affairs Committee unanimously approved a favourable report on amended treaties with Australia, New Zealand and Canada, providing for direct negotiation between these countries and the United States in any disputes, rather than with Britain. A message from New York states that Mr Roy Howard, in an article in the Scripps-Howard newspapers following his New Zealand and Australian trip, stressed that New Zealand and Australia should seek closer co-operation between the Empire and the United States in the Pacific. He said: “New Zealand and Australia are interesting political phenomena. Politicians’ and businessmen’s statements might cause a mistaken belief that these independent commonwealths are prepared to climb into Uncle Sam’s lap. Far from indicating disloyalty to the Empire for which they are pouring out blood and treasure even more generously than in 1914, this attitude merely expresses their determination that the English-speaking way of life shall not be snuffed out should the worst happen and England fall temporarily. New Zealanders and Australians foresee a new significance in the United States-Canadian Pact. In the meantime they face the menace of totalitarianism and realise that their relationship with the United States does not differ greatly from that binding them to Canada.”