THE FOUR-POWER PACT.

Wairarapa Age, 11 March 1922, Page 5

THE FOUR-POWER PACT.

U.S. SENATE OPPOSITION. BRITISH DIPLOMACQ AND JAP. CUNNING. (Press Association—Copyright.) (Received 9.30 pan.) Washington, March 9.—The first the Four-rower Treaty, from the group of Senators who followed ex-President Wilson in the fight for the League of Nations and the Versailles Treaty, was launched today, when Senator Robinson, of Arkansas, denounced the treaty as a defensive alliance. He declared it singular that all domestic controversies had been excluded. “We know.” he said, “that the real trouble in the past between the United States and Japan has arisen out of three matters —namely, immigration, race equality, and Japanese rights in land ownership. Yet the treaty does not provide a settlement of these causes of conflict.” He declared that the treaty was dictated by Mr Balfour,

with the full sanction of the Japanese delegation. He asked Senators Lodge and 'Underwood to inform the Senate who the real author of the treaty was.

/ Both Senators admitted they were unable to answer the question. Senator Lodge said he understood that the treaty was the joint work of the heads of the four delegations negotiating the pact. Senator Robinson said: “There is no doubt in my mind that Britain and Japan will construe the treaty as a substitute for the Anglo-Japan-

ese alliance.” Senator Reed declared: “This treaty is the product of British diplomacy and Japanese cunning, and the pawn is the United States.”—(A. and N.Z.)