DEFINITE PROPOSALS

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 127, 31 May 1928, Page 11

DEFINITE PROPOSALS

NOTE BEING PREPARED INVITATION TO POWERS . ■ ■ , „? WASHINGTON, 30th May. Definite proposals to tlie "World Powors that they subscribe to a multilateral treaty renouncing war is expected to be made by Mr. F. B. Kellogg (Secretary of State) in an identic Noto now under preparation, and likely to go forward to the various Foreign Offices next week. It is understood that it will set forth the draft of a treaty' to which, _it is believed, the Powers :can subscribe. The Note will be tfrawn, according to an authoritative forecast, to , meet the fundamental idea of Mr. Kellogg for a simple, unqualified renunciation of war, and at the same time conform to the viewpoint "of the Powers as expressed, in diplomatic exchanges recently conducted. The, Note will be sent to Britain and the Dominions, France, Italy, and Japan. It is intimated that Mr. Kellogg will disclose therein that he has found the nations generally in accord with his proposition, and invites adherence on that basis. Two safeguards, one assuring the right of self-defence and the other guaranteeing such peace pacts as Locarno and the' League of Nations against abridgment, it is generally assumed, will be formally recognised. The disposition of Mr. Kellogg will be to leave the languago of his original draft treaty unchanged, so that its two articles will set forth a clear, unqualified renunciation of war, with interpretations left to other devices.