KELLOG PACT ONLY INTERNATIONAL KISS.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 19 January 1929, Page 3

KELLOG PACT ONLY INTERNATIONAL KISS.

EVERY MODERN WAR ONE OF SELF-DEFENCE NO PROVISION I’OR PUNISHMENT , United Service. Received Friday, 11.25 p.m. LONDON, Jan. 18. "The Kellogg Pact is only an international kiss,” declared Professor John ■Hartman Morgan, the distinguished journalist and diplomatist. ”11 i 3 dangerous and bad and will act on some people as a sedative and on most as ar opiate. Either it moans nothing or has any interpretation that any signa lory chooses to' apply. * It makes no provision to punish anyone breaking it. No war in the past two centuries but koA been made, according to the belligerents, in self-defence. By excluding self-defensive wars from the pact, you exclude every Avar likely to happen. Apparently, many support it on the principle that if you want to make talk of peace up to the moment of mobilisation, then act on the American principle of getting in the first bIoAV. The pact is mere words. The United States is the father of more illcgetimatfi children in international law than any other nation. The idea of acting as a moral preceptor, but of keeping up its sleeve what may soon lie almost the laVgest Navy in the world, makes mo fed a certain amount of uneasiness.” Diplomatic View MORE IMPORTANT THAN ANY ELABORATE TABLES. British Ollieial Wmdcss, EUGBV, dan. 17. Mr. W. C. Bridgeman, First Lord of the Admiralty, in a speech last night expressed great satisfaction that the American Senate had ratified the Kellogg pact, Avhich, in his opinion, Aval a very important stop forward iu the cause of peace. It Avas far more important than any elaborate tables as to the exact amount of armament each country was to have.