NAVAL DISCUSSIONS.
BRITAIN AND AMERICA. END NOT YET IN SIGHT. (British • Official Wireless.) Received September 12, 11 a.m. RUGBY, Sept. 11. Referring to the naval discussions between Britain and America, in a speech at Durham last night, Mr Ramsay MacDonald stated that he did not think he could exactly call those conversations negotiations. Like sensible people, General Dawes and he had said to each other: “Let us see why these negotiations we have conducted hitherto have failed. If we can discover why they have failed we can discover a way out, so that there will be no longer failure, but success and agreement.” That was what they were doing. Mr MacDonald was optimistic, as he had always been. His optimism did not arise from the fact that they had met with no difficulties, because they had. He did not believe that any of the difficulties of the situation was going to beat men of goodwill and sincere purpose. . ■ . ... “We are making no alliances _ with America,” Mr MacDonald continued. “That ought to be clearly stated. I will be optimistic until the end, which is certainly not in sight, or until failure compels us to say that the problem is insoluble.”
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 244, 13 September 1929, Page 2
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199NAVAL DISCUSSIONS. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 244, 13 September 1929, Page 2
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