OUTLAWING WAR.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 48, Issue 157, 14 April 1928, Page 5

OUTLAWING WAR.

THE AMERICAN PROPOSAL. / ______ NOTE TO SIX WORLD POWERS. (United Press Association —Copyright). (Received This Day, 8.55. a.m.) WASHINGTON April 13. Despite French opposition to sweeping unqualified renunciation of war, the United States to-day proposed that the six great World Powers and other interested Governments join m a treaty for ever outlawing Avar of every description as among themselves. This proposal is embodied in a Note, copies of which- wore simultaneously delivered by American Ambassadors to the Foreign Offices in London, Berlin, Rome and Tokio. Accompanying the communication was a preliminary draft of a pact “representing *in a general way the form of treaty which the Government of the United States is prepared to sign.’ / In brief, the draft is a simple declaration whereby the signatories would condemn recourse to war for the solution of international controversies, and renounce it as an instrument of national policy in their relations to another. —Australian Press Association.