UNITED STATES FIRM ABOUT NAVAL PARLEY

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 532, 8 December 1928, Page 9

UNITED STATES FIRM ABOUT NAVAL PARLEY

BRITAIN MUST SUBMIT PROSPECTIVE PROPOSALS TO RENEW DISCUSSION (Australian and N.Z. Press Association) Rec. 9.27 a.m. NEW YORK, Friday. The United Press Association’s Washington correspondent says any British invitation to renew discussion of the cruiser problem would have to be accompanied or quickly followed by written information indicating the general outline of the prospective British proposals, if it were to obtain consideration from the United States Government. The United Press was infdrmed today that the question was raised after intimations at the State Department that an opportunity might develop within the next year for further naval conversations between the United States and Britain. Officials would not commit themselves regarding the likelihood of an opportunity actually developing into a conferee ce. A written outline of Britain's general attitude would be insisted upon to correct the weakness which proved fatal at President Coolidge’s 1927 Geneva Conference, for the failure of which the British and American officials blamed each other. American officials now concede that lack of understanding prior to the conference contributed most to the collapse.