AMERICA AND LEAGUE

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 120, 16 November 1929, Page 9

AMERICA AND LEAGUE

ROLE OF KELLOGG PACT

SMUTS URGES CRUSADE

! ■ British OJBcial Wireless. (Beceived 16th November, 11 a.m.) RUGBY, 15th November, General Smuts, in a-speech, referred to President Hoover's statement that the Covenant means the application of force by other members o£*«the League of Nations, and that the United States is confident that public opinion will suffice, and will follow the Kellogg Pact without prejudice to their divergent viewpoints. "Both the United States and Great Britain have signed the Peace Pact, and are bound to see -to it that this great instrument does not become a dead .letter, Bo not leave its general aeclaration In the air, nut carry it to its reasonable conclusion. If that is done, it may be found that important changes in international laws will become necessajy, whicn will render the position of the violator of the •Peace Pact untenable. There will be no question of the application <rf force, but there will be a, consequential change of the laws of neutrality which ' will have most far-reaching results both for. the future of peaqe and for the settlement of current controversies. The Peaco.Pact, with its far-reaching implications, not only affords an unrivalled«.opportunity for the strengthening pf the peace position, but it also offers a bridge between the divergent views on peace held on both sides of the Atlantic, This unique opportunity should therefore hi exploited to the full. General Smuts confessed himself dubious about President Hoover's suegegtions regarding the immunity of food ships during war, as he doubted whether methods of humanising war would ever serve p, useful purpose, Under tho I,oace Pact mankind had definitely and unanimously declared war against war, i-hfi axe has been Jaid to the root q£ the tree. Let us keep hewing it there,"