HEIGHT OF PERFIDY.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXVI, Issue 18438, 23 March 1922, Page 5

HEIGHT OF PERFIDY.

PRESIDENT HARDING DENIES A REPORT. Received March 22, 8.30 p.m. WASHINGTON, March 21. W’Mte House emphatically denied that the United States has entered a secret understanding with any country. President Harding believes it would have been the height of perfidy for the United States to invite Japan to Washington and then betray her confidence by making a secret agreement with England. SHARP BLOW AT CRITICS. Received March 22, 8.30 p.m. WASHINGTON, Jan. 21. Mr. Hughes struck back sharply at Senate critics of the Pacific Pact in a letter addressed to Senator Lodge, which the latter read to the Senate. Mr. Hughes said he noticed the latest charge made in the debate on the Four Power Treaty was that there was a secret agreement or understanding between the American Government and Britain respecting Pacific matters. “Any such statement is absolutely false,” he said. “We have no secret understandings or agreements with Britain in relation to the Four Power Treaty or any other matter. Permit me to express the hope that American delegates will be spared further aspersions upon their veracity and honour.”