THIRTY-ONE TREATIES

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 571, 25 January 1929, Page 9

THIRTY-ONE TREATIES

AMERICAN NEGOTIATIONS BRITAIN AND ARBITRATION (United P.A.—By Telegraph — Copyright) j (Australian and N.Z. Press Association) Reed. 9.5 a.m. WASHINGTON, Thurs. According to the United Press Association, Mr. F. B. Kellogg has stated that another attempt to expedite negotiations for an arbitration treaty with Britain will be made before March 4. Mr. Kellogg forwarded a draft of i the proposed treaty to Loudon 13 months ago, but no move has beeu made by the British either to accept or to reject it. It is understood in unofficial circles that the Britisli objections to the proposed treaty are based on the claims that questions involving so-called special interests would be subjected to arbitration. Mr. Kellogg believes that it will be impossible to complete the negotiations for all the pending arbitration and conciliation treaties before the present Administration ends, because eliminating the treaties now pending with Latin American countries, 31 await negotiation with European and Asiatic Powers. He hopes, however that the prinicpal ones will be negotiated and possibly ratified by March 4. OMINOUS SIGNS UNHAPPY RELATIONS U.S.A. AND BRITAIN (Australian and, N.Z. Press Association) NEW YORK, Wednesday. The New York Liberal magazine, “Tlie Nation,” publishes an article by Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, Leader of the British Labour Party. This says:— “The relations between the United States and Britain grow increasingly unhappy. The usual committees of friendship are being formed. This is always an ominous sign. Also the usual signals of faith are being flown as ‘War between Britain and the United States is unthinkable.’ “When I hear this I am reminded of the sailor who, when he was in dire peril, expressed his thankfulness that his religion was still left to him.” Mr. MacDonald reviews the naval relations between Britain and America. He speaks of the causes of war as being controllable and indicates various reasons for mutual distrust. Ha proceeds: “The practical policies of the United States and Britain are exactly the same as that which preceded and prepared for the late war. Let us both get to close grips with reality. Britain does not wish to involve the United States in any European escapades or entanglements. “Both our Governments ought to appoint five or six of their most outstanding public men, representative of the whole nation, to meet and to drag from the obscure corners of sulky suspicion those things which make the difficulties between us.” ,