KELLOGG PACT
COMPROMISE AGREEMENT.
PROPOSED BY SENATOR BORAH. AN EXPLANATORY REPORT. "r.ited Presa Association —By Electrics Telegraph Copyright.) (Australian Press Association.) Ree-cived! 10 a.m. to-day. WASHINGTON, Jab. 15. Senator Borah drew up a: new compromise agreement to bring about a vote 1 on the Kellogg treaty. The- new proposal would alecede to the reservationists’ demands- for a- report from the Foreign Relations Committee explaining the American interpretation of the pact, but would also make it clear that the report was mot in arny way a reservation in the meantime.
On the Senate floor, before galleries crowded with women representatives of peace organisations, the Democrat, Senator AValsh, defended the treaty more strongly than most of its Republican adherents had -done. Senator Walsh declared that the treaty was vastly more than a f eeble gesture. Ho said: "It is a revolutionary pronouncement. ’ ’
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 16 January 1929, Page 5
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