MORAL SUPPORT OF U.S.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXV, Issue 230, 14 September 1935, Page 5

MORAL SUPPORT OF U.S.

Behind Efforts for Peace : POWERFUL APPEAL MADE WASHINGTON, Sept. 12. Mr Cordell Hull, in a public statement, said that United States asked those countries which appeared to be contemplating armed hostilities to weigh most solicitously the declaration and pledge given in the Pact of Paris. Officials emphasise that it was not a formal invocation of the Kellogg Treaty. Invocation of the Pact, they said, would have involved asking other nations to join in the appeal. Observers contended that, for the United States, Mr Hull’s appeal had the same force as participation in a formal invocation, and could secure added emphasis Only by simultaneous expression of similar views by other signatories. 1 Mr Hull told newspapermen that he had not discussed the question with envoys of other Governments. Earlier in the day he told newspapermen informally that he considered Sir Samuel Hoare’s speech a very interesting, able and timely appeal for peace. The statement, emphasising the peaceful ideals of tho American people, is interpreted by observers as placing the entire moral support of the United States behind the world’s collective efforts to maintain peace.