NEW FORCE FOR PEACE

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 81, 29 December 1937, Page 7

NEW FORCE FOR PEACE

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British and American Co-operation INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS

(By Telegraph-

(Received 29, 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, Dec. 28. "If the Christmas season has seen a perceptible relegation of the diplomatic tensiou, that welcome effect may be attributed in no little way to the harmonious attitude and action of the British and American Governments, " says the Daily Telegraph (Conservative) in a leading article. Describnig as significant the New York Times' editorial urging parallel British and American roads towards peace, the Telegraph adds: "Such a declaration is no less welcomed and reciprocated in Britain because there is no thought that such parallel action would be used by either party to pull out the other's chestnuts from the fire. " The News-Chronicle (Liberal) eonsiders the New York Times article so remarkable and its significance so great that it reproduces it in full, with editorial comment, "We entirely agree," the Daily Herald (Labour) says, "that there is present now in the international situations a new force on the side of peace. It is the co-operation of Britain and the United States. Yet one thing that will kill this co-operation stone dead is the failure of the British- American trade negotiations through the insistence of sectional interests here upon the maintenance of big tariffs. Another would be Britain's failure to honour her principles and obligations under the Coyenant of the League."