AMERICAN ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 11 December 1924, Page 3

AMERICAN ITEMS

• UITBALIAN AND N.Z. CAUL I ASSOCIATION. I’RINCE TO VISIT ARGENTINE. III'ENOS AYRES, Dec. if). It i.s announced from Ixuidou that the King lias accepted an invitation from [’resident De Alvear for the Prince of Wales to visit the Argentine. This news, apart from relating a sensation lias proved an agreeable surprise. UNIVERSAL BRACK. SIR K HOWARD'S VIEWS. fßec-cWed tnis dav at- 0.2/i am 1 NEW YOR K. Dei ember 10. “Ilritain may have to go further than the Cnited States in eo-operating with other European nations to procure a state of eonlidenee leading up to disarmament and peaee,” so Sir Ksmo Howard, the Mritish Ambassador, told memliers of the English Speaking T’nioii. “This must not.’’ lie said, “be eonstrued as implying the possibility of a ela.sli between the Cnited States and Britain, wlih.i the other nations of the World must really learn to consider, as we already <lo consider as one b ad. and which we will neither admit nor endure.”

Sir Esme Howard said that every European power would be glad to icduce their expemlitiire on arniam.uits if only a sense of security could be established. This could he done ay tie adoption of a (lonova protocol. Compulsory arbitration was the only * ;,v to establish a sense of security. “The one thing,” said Sir Esme. “i.s to avoid the impression that we wish to Anglo-Saxonise the World.” The Geneva protocol lie described as “just an honest attempt of i erfe -ily honest men to find a method of making war impossible as far a.s that will humanly he done.”