Salt Lake Telegram | 1935-11-15 | Page 18 | Naval Accord Believed Due

NAVAL ACCORD ACCORDi i BELIEVED DUE DUEr DUEi i 4 T r Copyright 1935 United Press LONDON Nov 15 15 Closer Closer cooperation cooperation cooperation coop coop- between Great Britain and the United States at the forth forthcoming comIng com com- ing naval conference than at any previous similar gathering was tore forecast cast in lu in well-informed well circles today Two now new factors in international relations pave tho the way to close clos collaboration One is Js President Roosevelt's pronouncement pronouncement pro pro- on October 5 that the th United States would not interfere on behalf of its traders with i a blockade against a nation naHon outlawed by the League of ot Nations for tor illegal aggression This was at interpreted I In England as abandonment of th the traditional American insistence upon the tho freedom of the tho seas doc doc- trine The reaction hero was that tha President Roosevelt had laid th the specter of possible United States State intervention against any nation to impede American wartime wartime wartime war war- time commerce That doctrine has long been a grave obstacle to improvement it in Anglo American relations Last Las November Prime Minister Stanley Stanle Baldwin significantly said that as as long as he be participated in the government gov goy he be would never consent to the use of the British navy y for the blockade of any state unless he knew know In advance the attitude o othe of the United States United States insistence on the freedom of tho the seas for tor the past 16 years has tempered Britain's Willingness Will wUl- willingness to carr carry out her ber obligations under article XVI of tho the l league ague covenant It was feared here if it Britain lent her ber navy to blockade of an aggressor sor state she might slither sUther Into conflict with the United States That fear tear has now now been greatly allayed by what is regarded as a anew anew new American attitude toward the issue involved The second factor making closer Anglo-American Anglo cooperation probable probable able acle is Japans Japan's bid for supremacy in the far east which jeopardizes both British and American interests there