PEACE IS KEYSTONE OF BRITISH FOREIGN POLICY.

Levin Daily Chronicle, 27 February 1928, Page 6

PEACE IS KEYSTONE OF BRITISH FOREIGN POLICY.

(Received Sunday, 5.5. p,.m.) NEW YORK, Feb. 25. Addressing a Foreign Policy Association at Oincinnatti the British Ambassador, Sir Esme Howard, said that the first object of Britain’s foreign policy was to seek peace, and whenever necessary to help to enforce it. Predicting that political development in the next century would be in a “great measure transferred from the Atlantic), which is a European and American, ocean to the Pacific, which is an American and Asiatic,” Sir Esme Howard jaunted out that British interests in the Pacific as represented by Australia, Now Zealand, and India, would be vitally affected by any effort to destroy peace in that part of the world. The solid basis for success of a fourPower treaty in the Pacific, Sir Esme Howard said, “must ever bejthe.sense of common .interest of- the Hifonted States and the British Commonwealth in maintaining' peace in the Pacific region, without which sense and understanding idecd the, whole of ths Pacific region- would be useless; and oi no avail./:! ’ ■' As‘regards China and Russia ho declared' that Great Britain -would patiently follow a policy l of wait and see.