LEAGUE OF NATIONS

Hokitika Guardian, 9 May 1927, Page 2

LEAGUE OF NATIONS

! Australian it N.Z. Cable Association.] CAUSTIC CRITICISM. NEW YORK, May 5. Editorial opinion on the Debt Note differs, the greater part being opposed to the British attitude, and in some eases this criticism is caustic. The “New York American” says that Mr Mellon does not sec why American taxpayers should he charged 160,0C0,000 dollars per year in order to make Mr Churchill the matinee idol of the League of Nations. The “New York Times” says that just now to the common man war debts look like a great asset, but if it finally penetrates his mind that they are a. large part of the national liability, not only hurting our foreign trade, but hurting our prestige and impairing good-will towards us, he will be more ready than he is to-day to reconsider and rearrange these debts The “Chicago Tribune” heads its leading article, “Incomprehensible -Impertinence,” and says: “Mr Baldwin would have been red in the face for two days if be received through bis Foreign Office a Note from the American Ambassador requesting bis Governmen to disavow a truthful statement of the British question by Mr Winston Churchill in a letter to an Oxford professor. At. Poincare might have sent the British Ambassador home if such a Note reached him.”