SIGNING PEACE PACT

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 11 August 1928, Page 5

SIGNING PEACE PACT

CEREMONY AT PARIS.

PREPARATIONS BEING MADE. LEAGUE TO DISCUSS TREATY. tUnitoa i-rc-s Association—By Electric Telegraph copyright.) (Australian Press Association.) LONDON, Aug. 10. Supporters of the League of Nations at Geneva are frankly delighted at Britain’s action whereby the Kellogg pact will corn© before th© Assembly. It is considered! most probable that a resolution! will be introduced recommending all! members to sign it. Britain deposited her pact notes at Geneva, with la covering letter re-affirm-ing the opinion that the pact did not ask that the documents should be conflict with the League Obligations and circulated through League channels. Thus they were certain to crop up at the September Assembly. There is little fear that F. B. Kellogg, United States Secretary of State will! fail to attend the. signing at Paris of the pact. Indeed, officials from Washington visited the Foreign Office to-day en route to Partis, where they will assist Mr Kellogg. High-placed personages similarly do not believe! Dr. Stresemann, German Foreign Minister, is “diplomatically” ill. It is understood! the AVilhelinstrasse has been definitely toll'd tliat the signing of the pact is not .an opportune occasion for a talk on Rhineland evacuation , which is ‘better a topic for Geneva’s tea-tables. In any case Lord Gushendun would scarcely be able' to take up the subject with the same intimacy as Sir Austen Ohanibertlain. _ It :i's noteworthy that from the official invitations issued to-day to sign the pact Spain -and other Powers not signatory to the Locarno pact have been omitted. ~ . Not until replies have been received wild the exact character' of the ceremony in the clock room at the Quai d Oirsay be known. It is hoped the fact that invitations have been dispatched will! put ian end to the campaign intended to belittle the significance of the- cereQuestions of uninvited Powers who desire to sign cannot be settled until fhe invited -Powers ha.ve signed. The, ceremony is e.xipected to be little more than a " solemnm formality with congratulatory speeches.