Evening Star Newspaper, November 21, 1928, Page 7

* FOREIGN MINISTER FACES CRTICSN Chamberlain, Restored in Health, Has Naval Pact Fight on Hands. By the Associated Press. LONDON, November 21.—Sir Austen Chamberlain, Britizh foreign secretary, who sailed from Quebec for Englay Saturday, probably Wil need ell the health restored him by California sunshine and brac- ing Canadian breezes to weather the criticism awaiting him in Great Britain be- cause of his part in the abortive An- glo-Frenche naval pact. The pact itself is dead, Parliament buried it with a formal debate on November 13, but its memory re- mains as one of the most crushing blows to recent British diplomacy. Sir Austen. The ghost of the flasco may haunt Sir Austen through-. out his political career, and his return to the foreign office may signal a new attack upon the Stanley Baldwin gov- ernment. Will Be Asked to Explain. Sir Austen is certain to be called upon for his story of the pact negotia- tions. A question in the House of Commons can revive the issue any time, and, with a general election coming. the Labor and Liberal opposition will use every opportunity for criticism of The Worsted Tex Suit Always the conduct “ef foreign affairs by Mr. Baldwin's colleagues. Already Noel Buxton, Laborite, has | given notice that he will ask the for- eign secretary in Parliament whether, before the naval accord was reached, he followed the usual course of con- sulting the four dominions — South Africa, Australia and New Zea- Jand—and the Irish Free State. If the answer is negative, Mr. Buxton pro- poses to press for a reason for such a ! departure. Whatever the good intentions of Great Britain and France may have been, the British public, in common with the American public, seemed con- vinced that Britain and France had secretly bound themselves against the United States on the same issue of cruiser construction that caused the breakdown of the Geneva disarmament conference. - Policy Universally Condemned. | Americans at home probably do not | fully realize the sweeping condemna- tion of the Anglo-French accord by the | British press and public. The best that Envw:‘»pnpcrs supporting the government could say wes that it was made with the best of intentions. Certainly not since the World War has the British press so universally condemned a policy of the government and the method of making it known. : Anglo-American relations which were momentarily subjected to severe strain now appear to be healing without a serious scar. This despite the fact, ac- cording to one famous British observer of Anglo-American developments, there has been “no more dull and obstinate mishandling of American prychology by Great Britain since the days of George III, FEven with the Anglo-French pact dead and buried, the important thing— the world problem of disarmament— still remains, and the approach to its solution during the next fcw months will have much to do with Sir Austen Chamberlain’s political future. Confronts Hard Task. Next month he goes to th2 meeting of the council of th League of Nations at Geneva. There he probably will meet Aristide Briand, French foreign min- ister, and Dr. Gustav Stresemann, Ger- man’ foreign minister, with whom, it is said on the continent, Sir Austen forms Worsted-tex NULT Made of the kind of cloth you see at a fine custom-tailor’s and guaranteed to wear as well as the best suit you can buy at any price. Single-breasted (2 or 3 button) or double-breasted. 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By many people it is be- lieved firmly that had the British for- eign secretary not been wracked by the pain of his iliness he would have ex- plained the background, the scope and full purport of the proposals in such a way as to have avoided daubt and mis- understanding in America and else- where, and the debacle to British and French diplomacy would not Lave oc- curred. Now he comes home with his health restored, and the considerations that held back his possible critics do not [\ apply. —_— Drug Store Magnate Dies. PROVIDENCE, R. I, November 21 (#).—Charles A. Masterson, 41, presi- dent and general manager of the Louis K. Liggett Co. of Canada, the Canadian system of the Liggett Drug Stores Syn- dicate, died last night of an illness of |4, two years’ duration at_the home of his sister, Mrs. Lillian A. Bostrom. Belgium has 2 labor shortege. CATHOLICS PLAN * EDUGATIONDRIE Seek to Acquaint Public With “Teachings and Religious i Rllegiance. By the Assoclated Press. CINCINNATJ, November 21.—An ‘educational cahipaign to acquaint the lugeneral public fith the character, his- ory, teachings; civil and religious allegiance of Ghtholics and the Catholic | stional Council of Catholic Men and laffiliated organizations. Resolutions for such a campaign were adopted by the council last night at ‘the final session of its annual conven- fon here. Another resolution urged the istudy of labor and other social prob- flems in the 1'ght of Catholic principles y_members and affiliated societies. During a discussion of the after- effects of the recent presidential elec- Church will be conducted by the Na-| (4) tion, Rev. PeterjGuilday, a professor of church history at the Catholic Uni- versity, Washington, D. 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