Washington, Mar. 27.
Senator William E. Borah, chai man of the Senate Foreign Rela tions Committee, said to-day that recent Administration statements concerning the possible consultative naval agreement had indicated a reversal_of U.S. policy in this respect.
President Hoover formerly _believed, according'ts Senator Borah, that any consultative pact would be Jconstrueted by friends to imply military guarantee in some form, Senator Walter George of Georgia predicted that any such pact would eet, with strong opposition in the Senate when it was placed before that body for the ratification required under the federal constitu-ton.
In a formal statement issued this {fternoon with reference to the cot ultative pact, Senator Borah said: "It is indicted that the consultative pact will be the old security pact" in disguise."
He urged that someone in London should define the difference between "consultative" and "security" when used in this connection.
"In a security pact, you state in the pact what you are going to do ter you have considered it," coninued Senator Borah in giving his own ideas on this subject, "In a consultative pact you conceal what you are going to do after you have consulted, but you will be forced by the logic of the hour to do prely what you expressly agreed to in the security pact
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