SOUND m PRINCIPLE

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 53, 30 August 1940, Page 8

SOUND m PRINCIPLE

KELLOGG PACT MUST PREVAIL IN FINISH WASHINGTON, August 28. The Secretary of State, Mr. Cordell Hull, on the twelfth anniversary of the signing of the KelloggBriand Pact, issued a statement denouncing' aggression 'and warning that no nation can hope to remain at peace except by vigorous preparation for self-defence. | "It was to spare phe human race the i untold suffering and tragedy that we ! are witnessing today that the pact was signed," Mr. Hull said. "Today no country and nd individual is secure; no human being anywhere can be sure that he will be allowed to live in peace." Citing violations of the pact, Mr. Hull commented: "The soundness of its underlying principles is not impaired by what has happened since. Sooner or later they must prevail as the unshakable foundation of international relations, unless war with its horrors and ravages is to become the normal state of the world and mankind is to relapse into chaos and barbarism." CONSCRIPTION BILL. The Senate passed the Conscription Bill, which now goes to the House of Representatives. It provides for a year's compulsory service for men between the ages of 21 and 31. It is expected that 12,000,000 will register, from which number 4,500,000 will be available for the selected draft

In the first test vote on the Bill the Senate, by 54 votes to 29, rejected Senator Walsh's amendment to postpone the draft till Congress declared war or the nation was threatened with invasion.

The Kellogg Pact for the renunciation of war as an instrument of national policy was concluded in 1928 and accepted by 62 leading Powers. Mr. Frank B. Kellogg was at tlie time' American Secretary of State.