STATES PLEASED.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 119, 22 May 1928, Page 7

STATES PLEASED.

SUPPORT BY BRITAIN.

Kellogg Encouraged In World Peace Plan. DOMINIONS ASKED TO SIGN. (Australia!) Press Assn.—United Service.) (Received 10 a.m.) WASHINGTON, May 21. The Secretary of State, Mr. F. B. Kellogg, will invite the Governments of the British Dominions within a few days to participate in a league to outlaw war Avhich he is seeking to form. Canada and the Irish Free State will be directly invited to participate in the negotiations for a general anti-war treaty. The other Dominions and India will be represented through the British Foreign Office. Mr. Kellogg stated after the receipt of the British acceptance of his peace proposals that he would immediately invite all the Dominions and India to sign the treaty separately.

It was likely that Canada would negotiate a separate treaty for arbitration in disputes, separate from the outlawry of war pact. Mr. Kellogg said he was greatly encouraged by the attitude of the British Government and the implied co-operation of the Dominions, as he is anxious to have the British nations on his side.

EMPIRE'S ONE VOICE. THE NOTE COMMENDED. ("Times" Cables.) LONDON, May 21. The "Times" publishes a leading article commenting on the British reply to the American proposal for a pact to outlaw war. It says it implies much more than mere acquiescence and suggests a display of initiative in response. The British Note clearly aims at advancing the movement, and goes far to remove the difficulties which might have impeded the accomplishment of the purpose proclaimed by the United States.

The Note marks a distinct advance, says the paper, particularly because it represents a renewal of active co-opera-tion between the British Empire and the United States directly useful to the world at large. Moreover its value and importance enhanced because in the new international enterprise the whole Empire speaks with one voice. A conference may now be necessary and undoubtedly it must be held within the United States.