AMERICA AND LEAGUE

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 220, 11 June 1920, Page 7

AMERICA AND LEAGUE

POTENTIAL DANGERS IN PACIFIC ALLIANCE WITH AUSTRALASIA FAVOURED By Telegraph-Press Aasociation-Oosyrieht Sydney, June 10. Mr. Cornforth, managing director of the Vacuum Oil Company, .who has returned from a six months' visit to the United States, deprecates the Australasian opinion that "Amerioa did not care a fig- for the League of Nations." He found the United States did care, Lut objected to tho inclusion of the clause in the League which would inevitably embroil tho United States In war in Europe. Mr. Cornforth declared that President Wilson was the best-hated man in America. There vtM no chance of his being returned at the Presidential elections. Regarding _ the Pacific, Jlr. Cornforth found that influential American opinion favoured an alliance between Australasia and America, in view of their common peril. Thore : the menace is considered a vety livo one indeed, and America looks for some move on tho part of Australia and New Zealand towards a -union having for its object mutual protection against potential danI gers in Pacilio waters. A source of wonder among. Americans was that Australia and New Zealand failed to arrange direct exchange witlli America, instead of paying 15 nor cent, extra for goods, owing to exchange, through London. Industrially and) commercially the United States was in a state of great unrest, Extremely hard iimea v;ere ahead, chiefly as the result of the tightening of the money market, scarcity of raw material, and the shortage of labour.—Press Assn,