BRITISH FOREIGN POLICY

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 127, 27 February 1928, Page 9

BRITISH FOREIGN POLICY

SPEECH BY SIR-ESME HOWARD POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT IN NEXT CENTURY THE FOUR-POWER PACIFIC TREATY BY Telegraph.—Press association. Copyright. (Rec. February 26, 5.5 p.m.) New York, February 25. Addressing the Foreign Policy Association at Cincinnati, tlie British Ambassador, Sir Esme Howard, said the first object of Britain’s foreign policy was to seek peace, and whenever necessary help to enforce it. Predicting that political develop-

iinent in the next |century would be. gin “great meatsure transferred (from the Atlantic, I which is a Eurotpean and an Ainjerican ocean, to | tlie Pacific, which [is American and Asiatic,” Sir Esme I Howard pointed I out that Briti ish interests in the Pacific, as represented by Australia, New Zea-

land, and India, would be vitally affected by any effort to destroy the peace in that part of the world. Sir Esme Howard continued: “A sense of common interest between the United States and Britain in maintaining a police force in the Pacific is a basic requirement for the success of the fourPower Pacific Treaty drawn up at Washington by the Arms Conference.” As regards China and Russia, he declared that Great Britain would patiently follow a policy of “wait and see.”