BITTER ATTACK ON U.S.

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 488, 18 October 1928, Page 1

BITTER ATTACK ON U.S.

BRITISH M.P.’S VIEWS PLAYED ENGLAND FALSE (Australian and N.Z. Press Association) LONDON, Wednesday. A remarkable attack on the United States was made by M:\ Samuel Samuel, Conservative member of the House of Commons for Putney, in the course of an address to the 1912 Clud. Mr. Samuel said the United States was trying to dominate Britain. It had formed the League of Nations, and then cut adrift. It induced Britain to abrogate the treaty with Japan, which was a fatal mistake. Then It played Britain false over China, after inducing Britain to enter a new agreement for common action. It refused to join when Britain and Japan wanted to take action in the recent troubles, and instead utilised its position to point out that the United States was China’s best friend, and was preventing the Allies from interfering. “We gave the Nationalists our concessions at Hankow," he said. “I am now informed that it is the intention of the Foreign Office to give up the British concessions at Shanghai. A more fatal procedure cannot be imagined. “There is nothing in the AngloFrench naval agreement to prejudice the United States, yet America asked for a fleet equal to that of Britain, but did not want Britain to build sufficient ships for the protection of her vast Empire. “The whole American agitation is political, and against British interests. We cannot trust the United States.”