Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-13
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an arbitration treaty, trouble over the
shipments of liquor into this country
from British possessions, were added
irritants, not to mention the question OF
the allied nations debts growing out OF
the war. The United States and Brit
ain have had disputes regarding the
freedom of the seas" extending over
many. many years. Apparently, with
out any desire on the part OF the two
peoples, an unfortunate feeling was
rising.
Hoover Seeks Good viii.
President Hoover has always been
keenly interested in the establishment
Of friendly foreign relations. After his
election last year, one OF his first steps
as President-elect was to journey to
South America. 1t was his way Of
| establishing a personal contact with
the heads of the republics to the south
of us. When Mr.. Macdonald became
prime minister early last summer, fol-
| lowing the English elections and the
assembly Of Parliament, the suggestion
was made to him that Mr. Hoover would
be glad to welcome him In Washington.
1t came to Mr.. Macdonald from Edward
Price Bell, an American newspaper cor
respondent of wide experience, who had
ing the trip to South America.
Mr.. Macdonald is second to no man
living in his devotion to the cause of
peace. The prospect of establishing a
personal contact with the President of
the United States appealed to him
enormously. Almost Immediately after
Mr.. Macdonald became prime minister
the negotiations, through the Ameri-
can Ambassador Gen. Charles @.
To uyoc loolyir0 n cOy,1a ronop1on Cr0I1nd
en- which America and Britain could
stand in the matter Of naval limitation,
were undertaken. They progressed
with so much success that the prime
minister felt he would be entirely
justified in coming to this country, and
from Washington giving the ANAL word
to his government in London to dis
patch the invitations to this country
and to France, italy and Japan to at
tend a naval conference in the British
capital next January.
Britain Ready to Give Parity.
Out of this accord which Mr.. Mac
donald and President Hoover have been
able to reach over naval armament,
stands out one fact of the greatest i'm
portance in allaying all suspicion in this
country and much of the sensitive feel
ing which arose after the failure Of the
the British government now stands
ready to agree to complete parity in the
matter OF naval strength with this
country. This parity applies to all cate
gories OF naval ships. There had grown
up in the United States a feeling that
the British intended to cling to their
old idea of sea-supremacy. This was all
the more irritating because at the time
Of the Washington conference on naval
limitation in 1922, the United States
had been in the way of producing the
most powerful Navy the world had ever
seen, and voluntarily relinquished this
coming supremacy, with the under
standing that henceforth there was to
be parity between the two navies, the
so-called $3.50 ratio, with America and
Great Britain rated at 5 each and
Japan at 3.
So when Mr.. Macdonald, rising in the
Senate of the United States to express
his warm appreciation of the welcome
bother about parity? Parity? Take it,
without reserve, heaped up and flowing
over" there was an immediate response.
His spoken word, registered in the Sen
ate of the United States, was more
effective than a score Of notes. The
prime minister revealed to the Senate
in his address his warm and earnest
desire to set at rest, once and for all,
this question which had caused a feeling
of restraint IL nothing more between
the two countries.
Man Of Infinite Tact.
Mr.. Macdonald is not only an earnest
advocate Of peace and naval reduction,
but he is a man of infinite tact His
address to the Senate is illustrative Of
both. He told the Senate what the
Senate wanted to know, and there was
no equivocation about it. At the same
time, he did not forget that what he was
saying in this country would be pub
lished In Paris, Rome, Berlin and Toxic.
indeed, in every capital of the world.
His warm tributes in his Senate speech
TO M. BRAND, the prime minister of
France, and to the late Gustav Strese-
mann of Germany, were sincere and
yet gave the impression, which he and
Mr.. Hoover had endeavored assiduously
to convey, that their conversations we're
not directed to an exclusive" agreement
between England and America, an
agreement which would leave other
nations out in the cold.
The prime minister and the President
have left no stone unturned to make
it clear to the other nations-and also
to the Senate of the United States
that they have no thought of an
alliance between Britain and America.
In his same address to the Senate Mr..
Macdonald said, for example:
But must say that in the building