The statement made by Mr. ramsay MacDonald to-day that he is unable to say whether it would be possible for him to go to the United States in the autumn has been interpreted in some quarters as foreshadowing 2 possible abandonment of the visit.
Interviewed by Reuter's representative in this connection, Mr. Ramsay MacDonald declared Phatically that such an impro was wrong. What he meant was that no definite arrangements had yet been made, There were certain things to be done before definite plans could be made.
"IE they are to be done before Parliament "but they are going to be done and there is no question of an abandonment of my projected visit to Washington."
Sept. 3.
A storm of cheering greeted the al of Mr, Philip Snowden, the Exchequer, and British Deteg Liverpool Street station this morning.
Mx, Philip Snowden, intervi wed by, Router's representative, "The Conference realized our best hopes. We succeeded in all sential points of our claims. The luence of Great Britain in inter national affairs has been re-established and our relations with other countries are now more cordial than at any time since the war. We fare now better understood. It took the Delegations of other nations time to realize that, in asserting our elffims to fair treatment, were veally fighting for the sanctity of international agreements. We have been greatly strengthened
Janimity of the British press and in ur ort by, the practical British public opinion for which leannot too highly express out obligations."Reuter, Washington Visit Not Abandoned Geneve, Sept. 2 'The British Premier, Mr. James [one d oran an interview, the: United' States inthe stun, ere today, said he ho
But was notable to say yet whether this "was possible in view of the Government's difficul cireamstances in the House of Commons, Mossad: that the conversations between the American 'Ambassador, General Dawes, and himself were still continuing, "We are examin: ing every' proposal ikely' to. bring the conversations to a. suecesstal termination, The result of examination to date makes ts be: Hate thatthe pibloms contenting us will be overcome and an agree, 'The British Premier, Mr. Ramsay 'MacDonald, addressing the Assembly of the League of Nations to-day, announced, amid cheers, that the British Government had' decided to sign the Optional Clause of the Hague Statute, which binds signatories to submit to arbitration legal disputes concerning the interpretation of treaties and questions of international law, ete.
added that the form of the British adherence was now being prepared.
He believed that each of the Dominions would instruct its, representatives at Geneva to sign the Clause before the meetings of the Assembly closed and expressed. the hope that the present session would be known as the "Optional Clause Assembly."
Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, at the outset of his speech, said of the most important contributions to the task of the League of Nations in making peace had been the work of the experts during the recent Reparations Conference at the Hague. The British attitude at that Conference, he said, was prompted by self-respect. The British Premiey announced/that next week, five years before it had been supposed possible, the first battalion of the British Army of Occupation in the Rhineland would march out of Germany, never to return,
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