RELATIONS WITH THE STATES

Taranaki Daily News, 23 May 1928, Page 10

RELATIONS WITH THE STATES

CONCILIATION AND ARBITRATION. EFFECT OF ANTI-WAR TREATY. (British Official Wireless.) Rugby, May 21. Sir Austen Chamberlain was asked in the House of Commons whether the United States Government has submitted any proposals for the conclusion ol conciliation and arbitration treaties between America and Great Britain on similar lines to the treaty which had just been signed between America and Germany.

He said the United States Government had made proposals for a new arbitration treaty to replace the AngloAmerican arbitration treaty of 1908, which would expire on June 4. These proposals were receiving careful consideration at the hands of the British Government. No proposal had been made by the United States Government for a conciliation treaty, because there was already such a treaty in force between the United States and Great Britain, namely the Anglo-American treaty, regarding the establishment of the Peace Commission, signed at Washington December 14, 1914.

He saw no reason why this treaty, or the conciliation treaty now being negotiated between the United States and a number of foreign countries, should be abrogated if. as he hoped would be the case, the proposed treaty for the renunciation o£ war became an accomplished fact.