OUTLAWING WAR

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 14 August 1928, Page 5

OUTLAWING WAR

MR KELLOGG’S PACT. BRITAIN READY TO DO MORE. HER. PROPOSAL AT GENEVA. (British Official Wirwss.) RUGBY, Aug. 12. Replying to disarmament questions, the Ernst Lord, of tlhe Admiralty, the •Rt. Hon. W-iiMiam Br.itlgeman, speaking at Hoilifield, Yorkshire, last night said that Britain Rad done more in this direction than any other Bower, and she wsts> prepaied to do still more. The proposal for it multilateral pact was, in fact, only another wav of proposing what, on i behalf of tho British Government, he proposed at Geneva a year ago. When Mr Kellogg explained what he meant by “outlawry of war,’’ he showed that* his idea, was that no nation which signed the pact should use war as a.n instrument of national policy. That- was a perfectly plain statement, with which he cordially agreed. It meant that each nation could take what measure it thought fit for its own defence, but that each was bound in honour not to appeal to armaments in 'order to carry out an aggressive policy. It was almost exactly the same tiling in principle as what, at Geneva, Britain had proposed, namely, that aggressive naval warfare should be considered entirely out of court and that the Bowers should come to an agreement on what vessels each wanted for its own selfdefence. The pact was a very long step in the right direction. Referring to the Anglo-French compromise regarding proposals for the basis of naval limitation, he said : “At previous meetings of the Preparatory Committee for the Disarmament Conference a good deal of difference was revealed between the French view and the British. Since then we have had conversations with the French, and by concessions on 'both sides we have arrived at an agreement which we hope will be accepted by nil the other nations. It is nothing to do with the American multilateral pact, but it will make it, perhaps, easier in the future to arrive at some agreement at the Disarmament Conference at. Geneva.’’