PEACE among NATIONS

Manawatu Times, Volume LIII, Issue 6699, 28 August 1928, Page 7

PEACE among NATIONS

All Delegates Now Assembled At Paris for Signing of Pact DOCUMENT TO GO TO U.S.A. The latest word from Paris states that every delegate in connection with the signing of the Kellogg Outlawry of War Treaty has arrived on the scene. Sunday was largely occupied by receptions—calling and returning calls. Mr Kellogg had a lengthy conversation with M. Poincare. The Pact, which is in French and English, will-be photographed and is expected to remain at the Quai d’Orsay until signed by all those invited to do so. It will then go to America.

FIRST EDITORIALS ARB • DEVOTED TO PEACE PACT. Cnited Press Association —By Electric Telegraph-Copyright. Received Monday, 7.15 p.m. LONDON, Aug:‘27. : Most newspapers’, devote their Erst editorial to the Peace Pact. That of .the’Times is obviously carefully, and deliberately phrased for American consumption; It says: ''The terms of the Pact are vague and nebulous; but if the price of signing appears to be a somewhat sceptical commitment to the nebulous ideal this may be most hopefully undertaken especially if it means that , a groat, wealthy and rapidly, rising American power lying between ’ straining Europe and an East in turmoil will really lend a hand to render war more difficult. “America has rejected the League. A second failure on the United States part could with difficulty be borne.- - “This is happily not anticipated. The new treaty may mean ranch or little to the' extent ’that it has or has hot the support * of its American, authors;’’ ' • , The Daily Telegraph says:’; ; “The Notes which some Powers, including Britain, added to the text do not detract from the new international credo. It expresses and will bear the same relation thereto as, a judge ’a obiter dicta to his binding judgments.” Tho Daily Herald alone is most sceptical and describes it as a “peace pact by war mongers and full of serious loopholes.”;' An Delegates Present. Messages from Paris on Sunday were to the following effect: Every Pact delegate has arrived. The day was largely occupied in giving receptions to the arrivals and calling and returning calls.,. . Mr. Kellogg had a lengthy conversation with M: Poincare.; Tlie ; fifty-oight, guests at Mr. Kellogg’s banquet at the United’ States Embassy included the signatories and their wives . The only absentee was Dr. Stresemann,’who is' acting under doctor’s orders. ■; The Pact, -which is in French and English, and will bo photographed, *s expected to remain at the Quai D’Orsay Ti-nt.il signed by all ..the visitors. It will then go, to America.: . ■ Stiesematui la Paris. Dr. Stresemiann:’ is the first German Foreign Minister . to bo officially in Paris - since the Franco-Prussian War.. He was excellently received. Hundreds of French made no demonstration, though when the car drove off to the German Embassy there wore hearty cheers, with a few disapproving whistles. ■ Tho meeting with French Ministers was most cordial. Tho German Minister willingly posed for photographs. He is accompanied, by his personal' physician and two There are flags and banners everywhere. Dr. Stresemann, in the interests of his health, has; decided not to receive the Press, though soon after his arrival he -gave a written statement to the French Press, in which he sincerely regretted the drastic orders of Jus doctor forbidding personal interviews. Tho statement proceeds: V Assurance to France. It is enough to enunciate the elementary principles of the Treaty in order to understand the extraordinary scope of’ this imminent international act. I am convinced that we possess in the Pact a new basis which with tho goodwill of the nations, will enable us to arrive at the creation of a world in which war, one of tha most terrible scourges of humanity, will exist no more. The Germans are firmly resolved to co-operate energetically in Hhe realisation of this ideal. >■ ;: It is an important fact that it should be precisely the conclusion of such a Pact that brings ■'a German Foreign Minister to Paris for the first time for many years. It has often been repeated that in a certain sense the key of tho problem of European peace lies in the relations of our two countries. We know that even after Locarno certain difficulties are still in the 1 way of the extension of these relations, but we arc also aware that they arc not such as necessarily to check the policy of responsible statesmen. They can bo removed, and consequently ought to bo removed. I should bo glad if the signatories to the Peace Pact in Paris were to favour its realisation by fresh progress in this direction. Interest In England. 1 Official wireless messages from Rugby state: The significance of the signing of tho Pact is fully recognised by tho Press and all the newspapers publish articles on the subject while the text of tho multilateral treaty for the Eenuneia tion of War as an instrument of national policy is in some reproduced in full.

Regret is expressed in official quarters that the United States Secretary of State, Mr. Kellogg, has been unable to accept an invitation to visit London before returning to America. Broadcasting Speeches. The ceremony pi the signing of - tho multilateral Treaty for the Renuhei - tion of -War as an instrument of national policy will be broadcasted by wireless from the British Broadcasting Corporation stations, ; and it is anticipated that listeners in many -distant parts of the world will hear the' speeches as they are delivered tormorrow afternoon. Signals will be carried to London on ordinary telephone lines from Paris, rfrhere the ceremony will take place, and, although officials hope that these will be adequate, arrangements are being made for picking up tho Paris stations 's transmission, in event of a failure, and retransmitting! Broadcasting to the Dominions will he undertaken from tho short wave experimental station at Chelmsford. This station is used daily for work in transmissions of varied programmes on a wave length of 24 -metres. Prayers in Churches. Preachers in churches of all denominations throughout Britain expressed hopes of a successful outcome of the Kellogg Pact. The Archbishop of Canterbury and the Free Church Council led the movement which included several distinguished’American clerics at present in England.