THE KELLOGG PACT.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 85, 11 April 1929, Page 8

THE KELLOGG PACT.

I cannot agree with the statement of "X Social Student" that '"the best observers on both sides of the Atlantic agree that the reservations insisted on by Britain and France practically" nullify" the Kellogg Pact. Mr. Kellogg says that each nation must be it» own judge of what is adequate defence, we are told, which "leaves the whole thing it is," but not where it was. It is quite easy to conceive of wars which connot be accommodated under the reservations. Like the League of Nations, the Kellogg Pact depends upon the will of the people to make a really effective instrument for peace. Destructive criticism of the League and the pact is calculated to nullify the noblest endeavours of the Tace to rear a really effective barrier to war. and to promote peace and goodwill among men. It is true that any fool may find fault with the best work of international statesmen, but it i« not wise or clever to do so. Professors in British and American universities who are guilty of such folly should be ashamed of themselvt»s. The signatories of the Kellogg Pact have to but solemnly endeavour to carry it out in good faith to make it the most effective instrument for peace yet de\ ised. This. 1 believe, they will do, and, in so doing, discredit carping critics. We have no warrant to insinuate insincerity to the signatories. To do so i« to play the fool with issues too stupendous for thought or speech. J. G. HUGHES.