THE PEACE PACT

Evening Star, Issue 19894, 16 June 1928, Page 6

THE PEACE PACT

RENUNCIATION OF WAR SOUTH AFRICA’S REPLY. (British Official Wireless.) Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. RUGBY, June 15. (Received June 16, at noon.) Sir Austen Chamberlain has transmitted to Mr Ray Atherton (United States Charge D’Affaires in London) a message from General Hertzog (Minister of External Affairs of the Union of South Africa) gladly accepting, on behalf of the South African Government, the invitation of the United States Government to participate individually and as an original_ signatory adds; “In expressing its willingness to in the proposed treaty for the renunciation of war. General Hertzog be a party to the proposed treaty His Majesty’s Government in the Union of South Africa takes it for grantedfirst, that it is not intended to deprive any party of the proposed treaty of any of its natural rights of self-defence; secondly, that violation by any one of the parties of any of the provisions of the proposed treaty will free the other parties of their obligation to observe its terms in respect _of .the party committing such violation; and, thirdly, that provision will be made for rendering it quite clear that it is not intended that the Union of South Africa by becoming a party to the proposed treaty will be precluded from fulfilling as a member of the League, of Nations its obligation towards the other members thereof under the provisions of the Covenant of the League.”