KELLOGG PACT

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVIII, Issue 221, 16 August 1928, Page 7

KELLOGG PACT

BLESSING TO HUMANITY. • DESIRE FOR WORLD PEACE. STATEMENT BY MR COOLIDGE. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). (Australian Press Association —United Service). Received Aug. 16, 10.5 a.m. WASHINGTON, Aug. 15. A message from Wisconsin, states that when addressing the State American Legion to-day President Coolidge declared that the Kellogg Pack held greater hope for peaceful relations than was ever before given tho world. President Coolidge added: “The agreement proposes a revolutionary policy among the nations. If those involved in it will finish it its provisions will prove one of the preatest blessings ever bestowed on humanity.”

As to the power of the Anti-war Pact to maintain peace, the President asserted that if it had been in forco, in 1914 “there is evry reason to suppose that it would have saved the situation and delivered the world from tho ravages of war.”

President Coolidge maintained that by taking a leading position in securing the agreement the United States had proved its pacific inclinations toward all nations.

Tho text of Mr Kellogg’s draft antiwar Pact consists of two main articles, the first solemnly condemning recourse to war for tho solution of international controversies and renouncing it as an instrument of national policy; and tho second agreeing that the solution of all disputes of’ whatsoever character shall never bo sought except by pacific means. Tho text is preceded by a preamblo, tho first three clauses of which have been revised to give express recognition of tho principle that, if a' State resorts to war in violation of tho treaty, the other signatories aro released from their obligations under the treaty to that State. The revised clauses read : (1) The signatories aro deeply sensible of their solemn duty to promote the welfare of mankind. (2) They are persuaded that tho time has come when a frank renunciation of war as an instrument of national policy should be made so that existing peaceful friendly relations may bo perpetuated. (3) They are convinced that all changes in relations with one another should only bo sought by pacific moans, and should bo the result of a peaceful, orderly process, and any signatory which should seek to promote its national interests by resort to war should bo denied tho benefits of tho treaty.