TO OUTLAW WAR

Feilding Star, Volume 6, Issue 1911, 23 May 1928, Page 3

TO OUTLAW WAR

BRITAIN FULLY .COMMITTED NOT AN INSTRUMENT OF I’OLICY (Augt. and N.Z. Cable'. Rugby, May 20. Commenting on Sir Austen Chamberlain's reply to tin* American suggestion of a multilateral pact renouncing war as an instrument of national policy, the Observer says: “The movement initiated by Mr Kellogg, x United Stales Secretary of State, had been virtually .suspended till the British attitude was disclosed. The British Government and the British Dominions have no given their full support. 'The practical purpose of the British answer issued yesterday, was to endorse Mr Kellogg’s principle and to suggest, prompt negotiation of details. The British Government. supported by the British Dominions, has now committed itself fully to proclaim without, restriction or qualification that war shall not he used as an instrument of policy. The only specific reservation made in the British acceptance agrees with Article of the reach Note that the Kellogg pledge should not eontiiet. with any existing 'Treaty obligation,ss. The Covenant of the League and the Locarno treaty are regarded by his .Majesty’s' Government as fundamental.”