PEACE OF THE NATIONS

Evening Star, Issue 19758, 7 January 1928, Page 5

PEACE OF THE NATIONS

OUTLAW WAS mmhMMmM THE PROPOSED, PAC& \ Press Association—By Telegraph—Copy^lw| PARTS, January .f French opinion on Mr Kellogg’s p® posals has changed, and they ttCQ Jmtra regarded with favor. The change Set the result of a study of tho full fcecd& from which it does not appear that Kellogg wishes to replace the pact Isji twoon France and tho United States by a world pact, as the seemed to imply. ‘Le Temps’ says: “There is iKMrfCft joction in principle to tho Uiujcra States opening negotiations with ttes other Powers entirely distinct front tho likanco-American negotiating Tho only essential is that tho pacsi should harmonise with tho Geneva Conference, to which Mr _ Kollogg’p proposals may bring the United States nearer. She for tho first time is will-? ing to unite with tho Powers which’ have made themselves the guardians' of peace.” The ‘Journal Dos Debate 6aysW “We must always encourage axra initiative against war from Washing* ton.”

CHANGES MAY BE MADE. SYMPATHETIC CONSIDERATION PROMISED. WASHINGTON, January 5. The seeming shift of sentiment in French Government circles in favor of tho principle of the American proposal for a multilateral treaty renouncing war was accepted in official circles hero to-day with uninixed satisfaction. Whatever reactions Franco might have towards the plan so far as the League of Nations or treaties with the European States are concerned, it is believed that the Poincare Government could not afford to be placed in a false light by outright immediate reject ion. Some changes in the Kellogg plan may be suggested as a result of French Cabinet deliberation, and, if so, these will he received in a spirit of accommodation. The Stale Department has indicated that it is prepared to consider sympathetically any amendments of the proposal it has made.