THE NAVAL CONFERENCE.
MR. STIMSON’S SUGGESTION. CONSULTATIVE PACT. BUT NO MILITARY OBLIGATIONS. United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel.—Copyright. WASHINGTON, March 2G. The possibility of a live Powers agreement being reached at the Naval Conference in London is still remote. This in spite of the fact that the chief American delegate, Mr. 11. L. Stimson, has offered to accept a consultative pact provided that it involves no obligations on the part of the signatories io render military assistance. Despatches from Paris indicate'that little importance is attached to Mr. Stimson's suggestion by the French Government. The Acling-Secretary of Slate, Air. Cotton, after a conference with the President, Mr. Hoover, to-day expressed (lie view that it is hardly likely that a consultative pact would bring about any reduction in tonnage, as asked by France. The United States would not consider giving a military guaranty in any circumstances, said Mr. Cotton, as she fell that such a step would be provocative of international misunderstanding as well as involving America in under takings wtjleli the people would never underwrite'.
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Waikato Times, Volume 107, Issue 17981, 28 March 1930, Page 7
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172THE NAVAL CONFERENCE. Waikato Times, Volume 107, Issue 17981, 28 March 1930, Page 7
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