CONCILIATION PACT EXPLAINED
ANGLO-UNITED STATES PEACE TREATY (United Press Association) WELLINGTON, September 9. The conciliation pact between the United States of America and New Zealand referred to in cablegrams was in effect an extension of the existing Anglo-United States Peace Commission Treaty of 1914, said the Prime Minister (the Rt. Hon. P. Fraser) in an interview tonight.
This treaty provided for the setting up of a permanent Commission of Inquiry to investigate and report upon any disputes between the two countries which ordinary diplomatic means might fail to bring to an amicable solution. Although New Zealand was bound by the provisions of the original treaty the new international and constitutional status which the Dominions now occupied made it necessary to provide for the treaty’s extension to the Dominions of the British Commonwealth by means of the supplementary treaties now signed.
“The treaty will continue in force for five years and will remain in force thereafter until one of the parties should give notice of termination. I should like to add,” said Mr Fraser, “that New Zealand’s accession and signature were authorized by the late Rt. Hon. M. J. Savage in July of last year. The subsequent delay in arranging for simultaneous signatures by the representatives of the British Commonwealth Governments in Washington has, no doubt, been due to more pressing matters.”
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Southland Times, Issue 24227, 10 September 1940, Page 7
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