THE PEACE PACT.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 83, 9 April 1929, Page 6

THE PEACE PACT.

IMPORTANCE OF RESERVATIONS.

(To the Editor.)

I have no doubt the author of the Kello~» Pact meant well, but the best observers on both sides of the Atlantic noree that the reservations insisted on by Britain and France practically nullify the whole treaty. It j s evident that none of the signatories has anv intention of giving up the claim to wage cer . tain wars as an instrument of national policv. All the nations with one voice have said: -"We must have security," and in answer to the question, '""What is meant by self-defence?" Mr. Kellogg replies by saying that each nation must be its own judge of what is adequate defence, which leaves the whole thing where it is. Professor Edwin Borchard. of Yale, » leading American jurisconsult, in commenting on this treaty, writes: "Considering these reser" vations it would be difficult to conceive of any wars that nations have fought within thu past century, or are likely to fisht in the future, that cannot be accommodated under these exceptions. Far from constituting an outlawry of war, they constitute the most solemn sanction of specific wars that has ever been given to the world." A SOCIAL STUDENT.