AMERICAN PROPOSALS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 55, Issue 285, 14 September 1935, Page 5

AMERICAN PROPOSALS.

THE KELLOGG PACT.

WORLD CONFERENCE SUGGESTED

GENEVA, Sept. 12

“The time has come to utilise the Keliogg Pact to prevent aggressive warfare,” said Senator J. P. Pope, a member of. the foreign Relations Committee of the United States Senate. He disclosed that he. had sent a cablegram to Mr Cordell Hull proposing that a conference of signatories of the Kellogg Pact should he convened either in the United States or in France. He said! these were more signatories of the pact than members of the league, and accordingly such a conference would be conducive to wider cooperation. ' •

AN OFFICIAL’S APPEAL. ENTIRE MORAL SUPPORT. WASHINGTON, September 12. Mr Cordell Hull (Secretary of vState), in a public statement, said: “The United States asks those countries which appear to be contemplating armed hostilities to weigh most solicitously the declaration and pledge given in the Pact of Paris.”

Officials emphasised that it was not formal invocation of the Kellogg Pact. Such an invocation, they said, would have involved asking other nations to join in the appeal. Observers contend that for the United States Mr Hull’s appeal had the same force as participating in a formal invocation, and could secure added emphasis only by the simultaneous expression of similar views by other signatories. Mr Hull told reporters that lie had not discussed the question with the envoys of other Governments. Earlier in the day he had told reporters informally that he considered Sir Samuel Hoare’s speech a very interesting, able and timely appeal for peace. The statement emphasising the peaceful ideals of the American people is interpreted by observers as placing the entire moral support of the United States behind the world’s collective efforts to maintain peace.