NO SECRET PACTS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 November 1943, Page 4

NO SECRET PACTS

‘ MADE AT THE MOSCOW CONFERENCE DECLARATION BY CORDELL HULL. » IMPORTANCE OF AGREEMENTS 5 EMPHASISED. (■ (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 1.10 p.m.) WASHINGTON, November 15. “No secret agreements were made in Moscow,” declared Mr Cordell Hull (Secretary of State) at a Press conference. Expressing pleasure at the public reception accorded the Moscow declarations, Mr Hull said the Four-Power Agreement resulted from a desire that these big nations should push away isolationism.

Mr Hull repeatedly emphasised that he'attached great . importance to the Moscow conference outlook towards internation organisation for world peace. He disclosed that he had been conferring with American leaders of all parties for more than a year, endeavouring to establish a common United States foreign policy and added: “If we cannot co-operate among ourselves, how can we expect the co-operation of other peoples? The United States now has the choice of a programme of cooperation such as was outlined at Moscow or no programme ,at all.” Replying specifically to the Roman Catholic complaint, cabled yesterday, that the Moscow declarations compromised the principle of the Atlantic Charter, Mr Hull said that not one of the participating governments desired to compromise the Atlantic Charter’s seven points. Interviewed in St. Louis, the Catholic Archbishop Glennon said one of the questions not clearly defined in the Moscow declarations involved the Polish territory given to Russia by Germany in September, 1939.