HEARST’S EXPOSURE

Hokitika Guardian, 11 October 1928, Page 5

HEARST’S EXPOSURE

OF NAVAL AGREEMENT. CONDEMNED AT PAWS. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copy right). . LONDON, October 10. The “Morning Post’s” Paris correspondent says: There its considerable sympathy with Mr Horan, the journalist, who has beeit ordered to leave over the divulging of the details of tlm Anglo-French naval agreement. Mr W. R. Hearst (press ' magnate olf America) is regarded as the grandcriminal of the piece.. It is generally believed that Mr Hearst obtained the document at Geneva, and bis . conduct is even less inexcusable, when it is realised that, on bis return from Geneva, be stated that the documents bore the imprint “ French Section of the League of Nations.” Therefore it is held that it was not the property of ' the French Foreign Office, but' of the League of Nations. Jt is stated that it had been handed to Mr Hearst at a private luncheon party by a high official of the Quai D’Orsay, who, it is believed, was welcomed officially by the French Government as an honoured guest, and also that, at the very moment of his dining with M. Jlerthelot at the Quai D’Orsay, he had in his pocket a document from M. Berthelot’s Department to which lie had no moral right, and which he intended to use co the detriment of France in other quarters. It is hostile to the idea of the naval pact.