KELLOGG PACT

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 14 January 1929, Page 5

KELLOGG PACT

INTERPRETATIVE RESOLUTION.

ADVOCATES DELAY PACT. REFERENCES TO BRITAIN. ■ Juiced Pres» Association—By Electric TelegrapLOopyright.) (Australian Press Association.) WASHINGTON, Jan. 11. Senator Reed, speaking in the Senate, described the Kellogg treaty as so mutilated by reservations that nothing Avas left to preserve lasting peace. He asserted that the treaties would not create goodwill) .they must express a lvill already formed. The will to peace was not universal. India was rising against the British; China against Japan; Germany and Austria were discontented and under the foot of oppression on their soil; Egypt was fretting under the strangehokl of Britain. Attributing the exceptions to the treaty to the efforts of Britain during the negotiations, the senator walked to a large map shoAving the British possessions and spheres of interest in bright colouring. He detailed _ the scattered AA'orld defences of Britain, dwelling upon Canada, Bermuda, Jamaica, and other points near the United States. He declared that in five hours Britain could destroy the Panama Canal.

“lii the negotiations,” he said. “Britain reserved these as spheres of interest in Avhich she is not bound. This is Avhat Britain says is not in the treaty. She reserves complete freedom of action and molly-coddles this country so that Ave shall sit quietly and not protect the Monroe Doctrine, and so some South American country will sign. If this country is ever destroyed it will be by the pacifists who shout peace, peace, peace, when there is no i>eace of the kind they talk about.” WASHINGTON, Jan. 12. No parts of .the pact for the renunciation of war commits any of its ■signatories to* go to war in defence of any country attacked in defiance of the treaty, said Mr. Kellogg to the Senate Committee of Foreign Relations at some of the recent hearings which Avere held in camera and published to-day. Mr. Kellogg added that Canada made it plain the Dominion would not he a party unless that were understood. Mr. Kellogg added emphatically that there was absolutely nothing in the notes of the various countries Avhich Avould change the treaty. In the Senate to-day Senator Samuel Shortridge (California) said he believed Mr. Reed’s opposition to the treaty caused him to see danger where none existed. He forgot that every nation had certain ineradicable rights Avhich could not be abrogated. At an in camera sitting Mr. Kellogg also said the British references to special zones of influence did not grte that Government reserved right to say what should be done anywhere in the Empire. “I dc not believe,” he added, “that it leaves Britain free to make Avar anywhere in the world Avhere she considers it in her interests to do so; the treaty contradicts it absolutely. “All the British, note said, or would mean if it were written into the treaty, Avas that there Avere certain regions the Avelfare and integrity of Avhich Avere necessary for the security and defence of the Empire. I have said over and over again that any county had the right of self-defence.” Hopes for a vote on the Kellogg Pact |to-day proved premature, says a later > message. Senator Bingham circulated a round robin in the Senate, Avhereto it -is alleged he obtained 20 signatures pledging the signatories to defeat the 'Pact unless the interpretive resolution is approved. President Coolidge called Mr. Bingham for a conference after the Senate adjourned to-day. The conference lasted several hours. Mr. Bingham later said: “He Avanted to know my position. I told him I did not want to take a leap in the- dark.” President' Coolidge earlier conferred with Senators Curtis and Borah, and it is understood he indicated to them his anxietv OA*er the Pact and the Cruiser Bill. It is reported President Coolidge Avas advised that both measures Avould be passed, and blame for the Pact delay Avas laid upon the senators who desire the passage . of the cruiser measure. Mr. Borah intends to keep the Pact before the Senate until a vote is taken on it, and it is believed he will attempt to secure a debate on the limitation of armaments early in the coming week.