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SAYS HULL
(Continued from Page 1.j
asked what warrant
was there for.
the assumption that the Chief Execu- tive and Congress would ever be more likely and more eager to embark on war than the general body of citizens. On the other hand, the adoption of referendum plan would hopelessly handicap the Government in
con-
duct of foreign relations. In the same way, dangerous from the view- point of the preservation of peace was the proposal that the United States should retire from the For East, comprising the chief portion of the Pacific aren.
TELEGRAPEL· FRIDAY, MARCH 18, 1988.
STOP PRESS NEWS ALHAMBRA
SINGAPORE
MEETS
BRITISH NEED
London, Mar, 17.
"Unfortunately, many people in this country wholly misunderstand
In the course of introducing the the position and policy of our Govern-
of ment in relation to that situation. Navy Estimates in the House Some have visualised only our trade Commons, Mr. Geoffrey Shakespeare and investment
with said the French, British and Ameri- relationships China, or our moral and cultural in-can representatives had consulted teresis there, symbolised by mis-last week whether, in the continued
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of information regarding educational
and medical ser- absence sics and similar activities. Some spanvoke the escalator clauses sionary,
Japan's building have concentrated attention solely
in the London Naval Treaty of 1930. the
and incidental
of
siron was gerred to the! but if, for
upon
ox-
The
ceptional facts of the existence Individual Governed necessary
extraterritorality and
the mainten-
ance of some armed forces to assist example,
and
It was
the
to exceed the displacement of 35,000 in the safeguarding of our nationalstons for capital ships, plans for so against possible mob violence similar disorders - special rights doing were well advanced.
Referring to
the opening of which it is our policy to give up, Singapore Base, Mr. Shakespeare and forces, which it is our policy to said the House could rest
nssured withdraw the moment unusual condi-that Britain now had the Singapore tions disappear.
Base suited to her needs in that part of the world under any circum- stances.
SAFEGUARD FOR ORDERLINESS
But Mr. Shakespeare gave particulars "All of these are important.
scheme of marriage the interest and concern of the United of the new States whether in the Far East or allowance, with allowances for child- any other part of the Pacific area, ren of all officers, including warrant Europe
or anywhere else in the officers. The scheme will come into world--are not measured alone by operation on April 1.Reuter. the number of American citizens re-
siding in a particular co
the volume of
ular country, or by Investment or trade.
or by the exceptional conditions
peculiar to a
particular area.
There
is the much broader and more funda- mental interest which is that the sees of international re-
orderly processad lationships
be
maintained.
What is most of all at stake to-day TOO LATE TO CHANGE throughout the world is the future
of inter-
of the fundamental principles which must be the foundation national order, as opposed to inter- national anarchy,"
TO BIGGER GUNS
London, March 19. Lieut.-Col. J. J. Llewellin, Civil Lord of the Admiralty, told the House Mr. Cordell Hull proceeded to re- of Commons last night it was too late fute the contentions of the "Isola- to change from 14-inch to 10-inch in the new battleships. That: tionists at any price", und said: "The guns momentous question is whether the would mean between three and four doctrine of force shall become en-years' delay in delivery because the throned once more and inexorably to turrets were the parts of the ship time to con- bring in its wake international taking the longest
the Admiralty with the all plants necessary
preparation
be ready to go ahead
anarchy and the relapse into bar-struct. But barism, or whether the peaceful na-proceeding
fervently attached to the prin- of ciples which underlle international would order, shall woric unceasingly to pro- with 10-inch guns for battleships in mote and preserve law and order, the projected White Paper, though not Be necessary. morality and justice, as the unshake- he hoped this would
The naval authorities are
fully able bases of civilised international T relations."
14-inch guns satisfied with their which night well be as efflelent as 18-inch guns mounted by people they thought would not be able to man
DARE NOT TURN ITS BACK
Mr. Hull depleted in striking langu-them as well as British sailors. age what the consequences would be with regard to
to cruisers, Germany If the United States turned its back was the only country building 8-inch on the whole problem and declined
no suspicion contribution to its solution--how it gun ships. "We have
that Japan
pan is building any," he added. With regard to the suggestion of would mean a break with the coun-: try's past and upheave its foreign Mr. Winston Churchill that Japan Interests and domestic situation.
might have started building a.type. "Isolation does not mean security: of cruiser between 10,000 and 25,000
at tons. Col. Licwellin said 1 is a fruitful source of insecurity,"
present there was no indication she was doing he declared.
anything of the sort. "If we found Concluding the Secretary of State that she was we would not hesitate to eloquently outlined the aims for consult our fellow signatories which they were striving, the first treaties to use the escalator clause." of which was pence in a world in the
said. which the forces of militarism, terri- He still hoped Jupan would do torial aggression and international nothing of the sort, but would come anarchy would become utterly odious, into line with the larger numbers of revolling and intolerable to the con-nations of the world limiting the size science of mankind.-Reuter.
of warcraft and their armament.-- ¡Reuter,
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