NO SECRET PACTS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 87, Issue 273, 18 November 1943, Page 5

NO SECRET PACTS

THE MOSCOW CONFERENCE Recd. 6 p.m. Washington, Nov. 15. No secret agreements were made in Moscow, declared Mr. Cordell Hull at a Press conference, in expressing pleasure at the public reception accorded the Moscow declarations. Mr. Hull said that the four-Power agreement resulted from the desire of these big nations to push away isolationism. Mr. Hull repeatedly emphasised that he attached great importance to the Moscow conference outlook toward an international organisation for world peace. He disclosed that he had been conferring with American leaders of all parties for more than a year, in an endeavour to establish a common United States foreign policy. “If we can’t co-oper-ate among ourselves,” he said, “how can we expect the co-operation of other peoples? The United States now has the choice of a programme of co-operation such as was outlined at Moscow or no programme at all.” Replying specifically to the Roman Catholic complaint, cabled yesterday, that the Moscow declarations compromised the principle of the Atlantic Charter, Mr. Hull said that not one of the participating Governments desired Io compromise the seven points of the Atlantic Charter. Interviewed in St. Louis, the Catholic Archbishop Glennon said that one of the questions which was not clearly defined in the Moscow declarations involved the Polish territory wnrrh was given to Russia by Germany in Sepi tember, 1939.