SENATOR FORESEES WAR

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 559, 11 January 1929, Page 9

SENATOR FORESEES WAR

BRITAIN AND AMERICA GREAT CLASH FOR CONTROL (Australian and N.Z. Press Association) WASHINGTON, Wednesday. The deadlock in the Senate over the .Kellogg anti-war pact, the Cruiser Bill and farm relief became hopeless to-day. Efforts to reach a settlement were abandoned and the opponents of the measures threatened to start a stonewall which would indefinitely delay them. The reservation ists continued the debate on the pact. They were led by Senator J. J. Blaine, Republican member for Wisconsin, who alleged that the pact was a one-sided declaration of British policy and a recognition of the new British imperialism by America. Senator Blaine said the two great English-speaking nations of the world were preparing themselves for a contest in the division of the world. It was a competitive struggle for lands, commerce, raw material and resources. Concurrent with the pact was the big navy programme. What else did it mean than war? PACT NOT EVEN TRUCE This pact was not even a truce. It was the beginning of a most stupendous struggle for world dominion and territorial aggrandisement. The clash might not come in their time, but the pact portended an early conflict. First a commercial war would come, then one which none but an infinite mind could contemplate. The pact would legalise Britain’s “betrayal of her promise of Egyptian independence.” A SOLDIER’S OPINION PEACE NOT SECURED YET (Australian and N.Z. Press Association) LONDON, Wednesday. The “Daily Telegraph” gives prominence to a speech by Field-Mar-shal Sir George Milne. Chief of the Imperial General Staff, in which he laid stress on the importance of the territorials. Sir George said he was certain that mobilisation would happen in their time, in spite of everybody’s idea of perpetual peace.