WARNED BY SNOWDEN

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 815, 8 November 1929, Page 9

WARNED BY SNOWDEN

MACDONALD INTOXICATED BY U.S. WELCOME? CONCESSIONS TO HOOVER LONDON, Thursday. The "Daily News” reprints an article by “Pertinax,” a well-known French political writer, from the “Echo de Paris.” The article was written after the receipt of a private letter from the United States- This was said to liave confirmed “revelations” which had been published a few days earlier to the effect that while the Prime Minister. Mr. MacDonald, was in the United States, he considered making concessions in connection with tl» iieedom of the seas. These some members of his Cabinet, including Mr. Philip Snowden, regarded with such alarm that there w'as a ifssibility of two resignations. It was stated that the proposals, in Mr. Snowden’s opinion, would have impaired Britain’s naval efficiency in the Pacific, also that Mr. MacDonald was ready to declare, food ships inviolate in time of war thus rendering a blockade impossible. The article of “Pertinax” goes further. It says Mr. Mac Donald —intoxicated by his reception in the United States—allowed the President, Mr. Hoover, not only to seek an agreement about the freedom of the seas but one to dismantle and suppress the Canadian naval bases.

Referring to Mr. Snowden as having bluntly warned Mr. MacDonald oyer the Atlantic telephone and having threatened to resign, “Pertinax” commends Mr. Snowden for his patriotism end courage. He predicts that Mr. MacDonald will not tell the House of Commons about the incident.