PACIFIC TREATY.
ATTACK IN THE SENATE. OPPONENTS OPEN FIRE. SUSPICION OF PACT. By Telegraph.—Press Assn. —Copyright. Received March 10, 7.30 p.m. Washington, March 9. The first attack on the Four Power Treaty from the group of Senators'who followed ex-President Wilson in his fight for the League of Nations and the Versailles Treaty was launched to-day, when Senator Robinson, of Arkansas, denounced the treaty as a defensive alliance. Senator Robinson declared that it was singular that all domestic controversies were excluded. “Wte know” he said “that the real trouble in the past between the United States and Japan has arisen out of three matters, namely immigration, race equality, and Japanese rights in land ownership,: yet the treaty does not provide for a settlement of these causes of conflict.” Senator Robinson declared the treaty was dictated by Sir Arthur Balfour with the full sanction of the Japanese delegation.
Senator Robinson asked Senator Lodge aaid Senator Underwood to inform the Senate who the real author of the treaty was, but both Senators admitted that they were unable to answer the question. Senator Lodge said he understood the treaty was the joint work of the heads of the four delegations negotiating the pact.
Senator Robinson said: “There is no doubt in my mind that Britain and Japan will construe the treaty as a substitute for the Anglo-Japanese Alliance.”
Senator Reed declared that “this treaty is the product of British diplomacy and Japanese cunning, and the pawn is the United States.”—Aus.-N,Z. Cable Assn.
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Taranaki Daily News, 11 March 1922, Page 5
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