TREATIES OF PEACE.

Gisborne Times, Volume LXVII, Issue 10509, 13 February 1928, Page 5

TREATIES OF PEACE.

NEW PROPOSAL BY THE LEAGUE (United Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Aust. ami N.Z. Press ,'-ssn.) (Received Feb. 12. 5.5 p.m.) GENEVA, Feb .11. A voluminous report has been issued by a committee under the chairmanship of M. Benes, which is sitting, at Prague and has received and examined statements from various governments respecting security, including the British, which clearly influenced the committee. The report states that eighty-five treaties of conciliation and arbitration are in existence at present, binding thirty-eight States. The committee suggests that regional pacts should be encouraged on lines of the Rhineland pact and flexible model pacts should be prepared. These should include clauses having reierence to the exclusion of war : secondly, the organisation of pacific procedure for settlement of disputes; thirdly, a system of mutual assistance linked up with the functions of the League Council. The report only constitutes a basis of discussion for the forthcoming Security Commission. AAIEIvICA TO AIAKE ARBITRATION TREATY WITH- GERMANY WASHINGTON. Feb. 11. An arbitration treaty similar to that recently signed by France and the United States will be offered to Germany soon after the Senate acts upon the French pact. There is 7 at present no arbitration treaty between the United States and Germany because those countries did not sign such an agreement when Air Elihu Root negotiated a score of arbitration pacts in 1908 and 1909. PAN-AMERIOAN CONGRESS HAVANA, Feb. 11. The Pan-American Congress defeated a resolution by twelve against six which would have given the PanAmerican Union political power and made it poetically an American League of Nations.