AMERICAN POLICY.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20542, 18 February 1935, Page 1

AMERICAN POLICY.

Four Pillars of Sound Peace Structure. United Press Assn. —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. NEW YORK, February 16. On the occasion of a visit by the Canadian Prime Minister (Mr R. B. Bennett) to New \ ork to attend a Canadian Society banquet, the United States Secretary of State (Mr Cordell Hull) reiterated that America’s policy in the Pacific was one “ standing by the accomplishments of the \\ ashington Conference of 1922 ” and the system of treaties there incorporated. Messrs Hull and Bennett were the principal speakers. Both emphasised the necessity of improving the commercial relations between the United States and Canada as contemplated in the projected negotiations for a reciprocal trade pact. Mr Hull extended his remarks to outline briefly the main portions of President Roosevelt’s foreign policy, particularly as it concerns the tar Eastern situation. In referring to the existing treaty system in the F'ar East, which many observers hold Japan has violated in her Manchurian adventures, Mr Hull spoke of “four pillars” of a sound peace structure. “Renunciation of war as an instrument of national policy; “A promise of non-aggression; “Consultation in the event of a threat to peace; “Non-interference on our part with such measures of constraint as may be brought against a deliberate violator of peace.” This last was taken to mean that America was prepared to renounce her traditional freedom of the seas policy.