THE PEACE PACT.

Grey River Argus, 23 August 1928, Page 5

THE PEACE PACT.

Kellogg’s Signature. A PRESENTATION PEN. (Received August 22 at 8.45 p.nu) LONDON, August 21. Air Kellogg, on his disembarkation at Havre oh Friday, will be presented by the Mayor with a massive gold pen, with which he will sign the Pact. The pen is engraved with olive leaves and the thirteen American stars, while the case bears a device in Latin, “If you wish for peace, for peace prepare.” Air Kellogg will travel to Paris by a special train and proceed to the American Embassy. He has arranged to leave Havre with Air Cosgrave on the 29. th, aboard the United States cruiser /Detroit for Cork, and to leave Ireland at the end of the week, in the Detroit, for England. Lord Cushendun has written to the Archbishop of Canterbury expressing Lis profound satisfaction with rhe latter’s direction thaj Hie signature to the Kellogg Treaty be th« subject of prayer and thanksgiving in. the churches, countrywide. He states:.--“The Treaty will be the most impressive declaration ever made of the determination to preserve peace. It will, inspire the nations with confident hope, stfch as it never had until now of deliverance from the sickening abomination of war. Such a consummation could never bet achieved wsth out Divine ’ sanction and gi’idancc, therefore H. i s entirely fitting that the memorable event should be associated Wifb public worship in the nation?] church. N.Z. PRIMATE’S APPEAL. DAY OF PRAYER AND THANKSGIVING. AUCKLAND, August 22. An appeal to all men of goodwill to mark by pray *r and thanksgiving, the signing at Paris next week of the Kellogg Peace Pact, is made by the Primate, Archbishop Averill. In th 1 course of a letter to the, “Herald,” he says: “I venture to appeal to all mon of goodwill to offer thanksgivings and prayers to Almighty God on Sunday, August 26th; Tuesday, August 28th; and Sunday. September 2nd, (1) for the measure of agreement which has bean reached by the great nations of the earth on this all important question of the outlawry cf war; and (2) for Divine blessing upon the practical outcome of the Tredty. The spirit behind the League df Nations Covenant and th? Locarno Treaty is focussed in this all important step to be taken at Paris on August 28. th, and it behoves all who realise the importance and force of spiritual moral and humanitarian sanc.ti.ons, to express their sympathy with this splendid development in international relationships. From every point of view it seems ,to me to be our bounden duty to do all we cafi to eliminate from the minds of men the overhanging dread and baneful shadow of an impending next war. Afay our hearts express theinsoh es in thanksgiving and prayer for the happy eonsumma'ion of this I very real step toward universal peace. *’