NAVAL LIMITATION

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 243, 12 September 1929, Page 2

NAVAL LIMITATION

AMERICAN PROPAGANDA. INVESTIGATION DESIRED. (United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Australian Press Association.-—United Service.) Received September 11, 1.0 p.m. WASHINGTON, Sept, 10. The Naval Committee of the Senate to-day voted for an investigation into the activities of shipbuilding corporations in the United States in connection with naval limitation.

A letter from Mr E. G. Grace, president of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation, has been made public by White House.

The letter stated that the company severed its connections with Mr William Shearer as soon as it had determined that Mr Shearer was a propagandist. President Hoover in a letter to Mr McClintock, a member of the Naval Affairs Committee of the House of Representatives, denied that there had been any connection between Mr Shearer and Rear-Admiral Hilary Jones (now retired), who was one of the American delegates to the Geneva Conference in 1927.

Mr Shearer also denied receiving confidential naval information from Rear-Admiral Jones or Rear-Admirals Robinson, Plunkett Pratt or Wiley.

NECESSITY FOR “PEACE MIND.”

MR MACDONALD’S MISSION,

(Australian Press Association.—United Service.)

Received September 11, 1.5 p.m. OTTAWA, Sept. 10. During the course of an address he delivered to the Canadian Club to-day, Rt. Hon. J. H. Thomas, Lord Privy Seal of Britain, stated: “The British Government knows that there never existed such a need for the existence of the ‘peace mind.’ That is why Mr Ramsay MacDonald is going to the United States; and He is going there to advocate the creation of the ‘peace mind’ no matter what the consequences.’