British Foreign Policy

Hokitika Guardian, 10 February 1922, Page 4

British Foreign Policy

STATEMENT BY LORD CURZON. VT7STRAUAN AND N.Z. GABLE ASSOCIATION. LONDON, Feb. 7 In the House of Lords, Lord Curzon. Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, referring to the Washington Conference, said the Four-Power Treaty ought to make war in tlie Pacific iiiipossililc. France had legitimate cause for anxiety regarding both reparations and her own safety. The Government was prepared to give her the same assurance as Par-

liament had approved in 1010, blit it would be a great mistake to extend

that assurance into an offensive alliance. He anticipated that tbo Genoa Conference would prove a great consructive effort in tlie direction of the economic reconstruction of Europe. He believed that even more valnuble results would accrue from tlie Genoa Conference owing to the imposition on all the participants of an undertaking to refrain from propaganda subversive of order, and of the existing political systems of other countries, 'and also from aggression against their neighbours. He believed the results in Europe might equal those of the Washington Conference in the Pacific. Lord Reading, Viceroy of Tndin. was sending a survey of the situation in Tndin, which would be submitted to Parliament. Lord Curzon said the Government intended to submit its House of Lords reform policy in tbo shape of resolutions.

Lord Buckmaster declared that the King's Speech indicated that the Givcrnment was resolved on a general election. TTe welcomed such a prospect. The debate was adjourned.