NOTE OF WARNING

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 450, 4 June 1937, Page 5

NOTE OF WARNING

PACIFIC PACT PROPOSALS EFFECT OF NEW CONFERENCE ‘Mutually Suspicious Nations’ Prgss Association —Copyright. (Received 11.50 am.) London, June 3. A note of warning is being sounded in connection with Mr J. A. Lyons’s Pacific Pact proposal. The feeling in well-informed quarters here is that a. long path toward reconciling conflicting ideas and ideals must be traversed before anything tangible appears. l on the horizon.

‘The Morning Post expressed the widelyheld view in London when it said:—

“A universal guarantee of nonaggression already exists in the: Kellogg Pact. The new pact would not give the signatories any greater security, unless a. real desire, for peace existed among them. If such a desire existed the pact would scarcely be necessary.

“It seems extremely unlikely that a new conference' would

solv e a problem which thus far has evaded all the efforts of diplomacy. There is certainly a better atmosphere' in the' F3r East, which nothing is more calculated to spoil thain a gathering of nations all mutually suspicious, and each with its own interests to canvass.” .