REVISION of Ottawa Pacts

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 112, 28 May 1937, Page 5

REVISION of Ottawa Pacts

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BILATERALTALKS ONLY [Virtually Diiappears Frpm Conference EMPIRE TRADE REVJEW

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{Secgiyefl §8, 11.3Q a.m.) " LONDOM, May 27, It was decided by the imperial Op8fei?ene§ to-dpy that all piattprs msw$ itm Ottawa wjll npt be djgcussied at tbe eooferesee, but will be subject to bilateral conver*ati(m The Au§trali?w Awoc&ted ?rew poUticaJ oorreppQsdept learns that it wai also decided that there be no imjnediate H&f-ljsh-Australian discussiops QOa, cmmg reyigiQn of ottawa, Talks between England and New Zealand, whieh were eommenced mqiths agq by thp Hon. w. Naphj ara eontinuing" wit| Britain, WbBo fipnver® patiQps between England and Soutb Afriefy tp revise tbeir Ottawa. agreqrnent, commenqe iu 3 few duy§, A »0W agraeffifnt between England and Canada was reeently eoneluded, Thus Cfttawa vlrtnaPy digappears from tbe Imperjal OPSlefence, * A depisioa • regarding , Ottawa was xeached when the hqade of delegations held theif first mepting in cpnnectipn With eBpnomi# qu^tifina, Mr, gtanley Baldwin was presiding for the last time, being uutpmatipally sucpegded by Mr. Neville Chamberlain when he &|- snmes the Premiersliip to-morrow. The eggferenpe firpt decided tp include rm presentativea of Southern Rhodesia and Burxna in Sir Thomas Inskip's Wai Materials Supply Cpmmittee, whbshba* been set up to create machinery for pooling and exchanging munitions and ioodstuffs. The gqnferenee then cpnxmenepd a general raview of Empire trade. Mr. "Walter Runciman, in a yery CQmprehen•jve statement, tra.ced th§ deyelppmejatg of inter-Impari&l trade treatieg, M?i Runciman alao outUned America 's de, sire that- the Bpminions nxftke saer|fices ander Ottawa, It *3 nndergtood, hQWever, th&t disQHSsjpnp between Britain and the Pominions regarding this matter will ncit be immediately initiated within the conferenpe, bvit will be the subjecf pf informal talkj between Britain and eaph of the Po® pilnions.