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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 932, 27 March 1930, Page 9

NO CONSULTATIVE PACT Reed. 9.5 a.in. j ’ WASHINGTON, Wednesday, j ! The Acting-Secretary of the State j , Department, Mr. James Cotton, stated! , emphatically on Wednesday that the j Government would not consider any: consultative pact necessitating mili-; tarv support. He said the position outlined by; the delegation in London was that of : oT rials here. Mr. F A. Britten, chairman of the Naval Committee of the House of Representatives, who said yesterdav j the conference had failed, asserted f hat there was no prospect oh a three 1 Powers agreement. and even an; Anglo-American treatv would not be: permitted by the British Admiraltv. j The best interests of the American | Navy called for a complete adiourn- ; ment cf the conference now. while j the very life and continuation in i office of the MacDonald Government j might depend upon a recess rather than a fiasco. A six months’ recess would mean the continued arbitrary dominion of the seas by Britain. In any future European emergency the British Navy would repeat its “indefensible and unlawful attacks of the World War upon all neutral commerce.’’ American interests would suffer; serious losses, probably confiscation 1 ;by the London prize courts. The j [ public of America should not be be-1 I guiled into the belief that Italy or: | France was responsible for the latest! J “fizzle.”