OUTLAWING WAR

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVIII, Issue 21, 6 January 1928, Page 5

OUTLAWING WAR

AMERICAS NEGOTIATIONS PERPETUAL FRIENDSHIP PACTS BRITAIN DEEPLY INTERESTED. [British Official Wireless.] (Received 8, 12.30 p m.) Rugby, Jan. 5. The text has been communicated to the Foreign Office of the reply which Mr. F. B. Kellogg, United States Secretary of State, ha s made to the French Government’s proposal of last year for a “pact of per petual friendship between France arid the Tinted States.” THE LEAGUE COVENANT. In London official comment is withheld upon the United States’ communication pending its careful study. The newspapers generally express satisfaction that America should thus be “talking the language of peace,” and pointing out, at the same time, that the League of Nations owes its very existence to a limited inspiration.

The principle, it is recalled, is expressed in Article 12 of the League Covenant, by which members agree to submit any dispute likely to lead to a rapture either to arbitration or to judicial settlement or to inquiry by the League Council, and not to resort to war until three months after the award. At the League Assembly last September a unanimous vote of outlawing war was also carried, which ran: "(1) That all war is and remains prohibited. “(2) That all pacific means must be employed for the settlement of disputes, no matter of what nature, that may arise among the various states. Members of the League of Nations are under an obligation to conform to these principles,” The newspapers await with particular interest the text of the proposed treaty of arbitration to replace the terms of the Root treaty. NOTE BROADLY APPROVED.

(Received 6, 11.50 a.m.) Londoh, Dec, 5. Official quarters broadly approve Mr, Kellogg’s Note and express the opinion that a multilateral treaty would not cut across the League Covenant though much depends on the text. But it is pointed out that the Covenant in certain circumstances permits, and even commands, war. Furthermore in certain limited circumstances, as provided for in the Locarno Pact, Britain is committed to sanctions that America doe® not mention. Therefore, till these points are clarified, there is no prospect of any official British communication. Britain may be directly linked in the discussions when the proposed enJargment of the Root arbitration treaty, which expires in June, is con. sidered. Professor Gilbert Murray snvs thnf. America’s proposals and the League’s resolutions declar ing war a crime are equally weak in the sense that each anil ever? nation will glibly agree until a crisis comes when it will say that war is being thrust upon it. If America can devise a treaty completely outlawing war he is confident it will be enthusiastically accepted by all nations.—(A. and N.Z.) FRENCH RESERVATION.

(Received 6, 12.30 p.m.) ■ Paris, Jan. 5. The most interesting development hitherto is the French Cabinet’s instruction to the French Ambassador in Washington to make a specific reservation safeguarding France’s obligations to the League in the event of defence against an aggressor nation.

The Root Treaty referred to in the above cable is the Koot-Juserand Treaty, written by EHhu Root in 1908, and since then rewritten and renewed tor five-year periods. It will expire this year unless reaffirmed.

Miss Owen McCarthy, formerly a member of the Public Trust Office staff, Auckland, left to-day for Sydney en route to China as a mission sister. She volunteered for foreign mission service six years ago, and has the distinction of being the first to leave the Dominion as a member of the Notre Dame Missions from China, hitherto recruited exclusively in England.—Press Assn. MOTORIST’S NARROW ESCAPE. .When a well-known Auckland motorist was setting out on a 700-mile trip the other day he complained of soreness of the throat. A friend accompanying him bought a box of Tulmonas. Their soothing vapours speedily restored his comfort and he accomplished the long journey without the sign of a cold. For coughs, colds and influenza Pulmonas. 1/0 and 2/6 at your chemist.

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