TO OUTLAW WAR

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 122, 25 May 1928, Page 11

TO OUTLAW WAR

RENUNCIATION TREATY INVITATION TO NEW ZEALAND TO BECOME A PARTY The Government of the United tftat.es of America' has invited New Zealand, in common with tho other Dominions-of tho British Empire. to become original, parties .to til!* "Treaty for the Renunciation of War ■\ now under consideration. The Ncv, Zealand Govprnment's reply will br published shortly. The Prime' Minister (tho Eight Hon. .!. G. Coatrs) announced to-day the receipt from His Majesty's Government in Great Britain of the following communication addressed by the United States, Ambassador in London to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and .received by the Secretary of State on the 22nd May:— • "Sir, —In tho Note which you addressed to me on the 19th May, 1928, you were good. enough to inform my Government that His Majesty's Government in Great Britain had been in. communication with His, Majesty's Governments and with the Government of India,, and. had ascertained that they were all in cordial agreement With the gene-, •ral principle of tho multilateral treaty for the renunciation of war which the Government of the United States proposed on the 13th April, 1928. You added that you felt confident, therefore, , that His Majesty's Governments in the Dominions and the Government of India were prepared to accept an invitation to participate in tho conclusion of such a Treaty as, that proposed by the. Government of the United States. "I have been instructed, to state to you that my Government has received . this information with the keenest satisfaction. My Government has hoped from ttie outset of the present negotiations that ,tho Governments of the Dominions and the Government of India 'would feel 'disposed.'to become parties to the suggested anti-war treaty. . It id moreover most gratifying to the Government of the,_ United States to learn that His Majesty's Governments in the Dominions and the Government of India are so favourably inclined towards the. Treaty. for tho Renunciation of War which my Government proposed on the 13th April, 1928, as to wish to. participate therein individually and as original, signatories, and'my Government: for its part is most .happy, to accede, to the suggestion contained in your Note to me of 19th May,. 1928. "Accordingly I have been instructed to extend through you to' His Majesty's Governments in Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa,, and to the Government of India, a cordial invitation in the name of tho Government of. the United States to become original parties to the Treaty for the Renunciation of War which is now-under consideration.- Pursuant. to my instructions, I also have " the 'honour1 ;to 'inform you .that the Government of the United States will ad.dress, through you to His Majesty's Governments in Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa, and to the Government of India, at the same time and in th« same manner as to the other Governments whose participation in the proposed Treaty in the first instance is contemplated, any future communications which : it may make on the .subject of the Treaty after it has been acquainted .with .the views, of all: the Governments to which its Note of the 13th April, 1928, was addressed. , - f "I have the honour to be, with the highest consideration, Sir, "Your most obedient humblo servant, "A.B. HOUGHTON." The Prime Minister states that the terms of the reply to be sent by His Majesty's Government in New Zealand will be published as soon as. possible.