KELLOGG PACT.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 12 January 1929, Page 7

KELLOGG PACT.

A BITTER, OPPONENT. SENATOR REED’S LAST STAND. {I liited Presa Association —By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) (Australian Press Association.) Received 12.55 p.m. to-day. WASHINGTON, Jan. 11. Senator Reed is staging what may be the last fight of his legislative career, due to his impending retirement. He has opened his final stand against the Kellogg Pact. Reservationists sought to reveal that the pact was nothing more than, the United States’ recognition of the old order of things in Europe established by the Treaty of Versailles. Senator Reed ridiculed the treaty as a vain effort to establish peace by a document which in reality was an official authorisation of any wars which any nation wants to promote. Senator Reed’s was the last scheduled debate, and the only thing now to prevent an early vote will be a filibuster by Senator Reed and chorus, some of whom believe that they can defeat the treaty if they are able to stretch the debate a little longer. But while Senator Reed marched slowly about the Senate floor delivering a bitter appeal, the committee and the leaders were planning what they "ill do when the treaty battle closes. Some quarters are hoping that the vote may be reached before to-morrow night.