MILD SENSATION.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXIII, 21 December 1925, Page 9

MILD SENSATION.

TALK OF PAN-AMERICANISM. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. NEW YORK, December 17. A iaild sensation Was caused by > statements "attributed to Mr Frederic Hudd (Canadian. Trade Commissioner to the United States) m a speech before the Rhn- American. Commerc.al Congress, in which Mr Hudd is alleged to have pledged Canada’s allegiance to Tan-Ainericanism in the broadcast - sCnsp, and urged the countries of the . Western Hemisphere to stand together , as the ..‘‘United States of the American Continent. .. This was interpreted here, and in Canada, as the. “cut the painter” policy.. Mr Hudd subsequently issued a statement declaring’ that his remarks had been entirely misinterpreted and given a political significance, Whereas he was only speaking as’avcommerciai represen _ tative before an 'unofficial body. Mr Hudd said; “I was merely authorised to attend the Congress as Canada’s representative. 1 had n« authority, whatsoever, to pledge the Canadian Government to anything, particularly a major matter of international policy, which is obviously beyond the province of a, civil servant. The' Pah-American Commercial Congress is not an official body, although all the Latin-American countries are represented. It has no connection with the Pan-American union, although the i two bodies are in sympathy.” Mr Hudd states that he intended to say “that Canada is the elder ‘ daughter in the Great Commonwealth of Nations, but her immediate destiny lies on the North American Continent. Canada .believes in the co-operation ot all countries on this Continent, and earnestly seeks their good will, and to .work with them in the interests ot mutual prosperity and the permanent peace of the world. These considerations are further strengthened by tile conviction that there is no problem too diflicult for the countries of Latin-America and North America to solve; no catastrophe is too ominous for the countries of the Western Hemisphere to avert, provided they stand together.”