WAR OUTLAWRY

Gisborne Times, Volume LXVII, Issue 10475, 4 January 1928, Page 5

WAR OUTLAWRY

PROPOSED TREATY

AMERICAN DRAFT HANDED TO FRANCE.

NEAV YORK, Dec. 31. The Tribune’s Washington correspondent states that Air Kellogg handed to the French Ambassador a draft of the proposed AA'ar Outlawry Treaty between* Franco and the United States which it is understood is designed to enlarge the former arbitration agreement to “banish for ever war between the two nations. It Is reported that the treaty con tains provisions that France and the United States engage to submit all differences to arbitration by means of an international commission; that differences of a judicial nature be submitted to the Permanent Court- of International Justices at the Hague or other trihu%al mutually agreed upon under the reservation that .the Senate approves and it is compatible with the constitutional laws of France, that arbitration will _ not be applicable on questions of international politics oj- to problems to which the Alonroe doctrine applies. It is Relieved that Mr Jvellogg stresses the noint-that the pact should not he unilateral but one to which the other great Powers should feel free to offer their signatures.— A. and N.Z.C.A. AMERICA’S PROPOSED PACT OPPOSED BY PARISIAN PRESS

(Received Jan, 3, 10 p.m.) LONDON. Jinn. 3. Paris messages indicate that the opinion respecting the American proposal for a pact outlawing war is not. yet crystallised, hut the newspapers ara diametrically opposed. They point out that the reservations <lo not leave much for arbitration. The Daily Telegraph’s diplomatic correspondent also calls attention to the narrow scope of the proposals, hut adds: “It goes without saying that a suggestion for the conclusion of a similar treatv between Britain and the United Stotes owuld he most sympathetically received here.”—A. and N.Z.C.A. 1 ' ''