NAVAL CONFERENCE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, 1 April 1930, Page 5

NAVAL CONFERENCE.

BRITAIN'S PART.

MR MACDONALD ATTACKED. rei s A siociation-Elcctric Telecraph- CoDyrld LONDON, Sunday. The newspapers give prominence to an open letter to tho Prime Minister, I published by tho Hearst Press in the United States, attacking Britain’s part in tho Naval Conference, and asking Mr MacDonald whether he is the friend he pretends to be, or the slyest and trickiest diplomat that has come out of England since Lord Balfour sank tho American Navy in tho 11)22 Conference. The Foreign Oflice declines to indicate the feeling in official circles, but newspapers of every shado condemn the attack. The “Sunday Times” says that Mr MacDonald has his critics here on other issues, but he has the nation’s backing in his unwearying effort to

achieve a Conference success. The British public will agree that the strictures are reckless aud blackguardly. The “Daily Express” hopes that Mr MacDonald will not be deflected from his firmness against the embroilment of Britain in Mediterranean conflicts by the gale Mr Hearst is blowing across the Atlantic. Tho “Daily Herald” says that the attack is the culmination of the Hearst Press’s attempt to cheek progress towards naval disarmament. Mr Hoover, not Mr Hearst, speaks for America. The United States delegation refuses to comment.