PEACE PACT RATIFIED BY U.S. SENATE

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6813, 17 January 1929, Page 7

PEACE PACT RATIFIED BY U.S. SENATE

Only One Dissentient

RIGHT OP SELF-DEFENCE

NOT IMPAIRED

United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. WASHINGTON, Jan. 16. The United States Senate ratified the Kellogg Peace Pact by 86 to 1.

Senator Borah drew up a new compromise agreement to bring about the vote on the Kellogg Treaty. The now proposal would accede to the resereationists’ demands for a r eport from the Foreign Relations, Committee exp l ing the American interpretation of the Pact, but it would also make clear that , the re-port w-as not in any way a reservation. In the meantime, on the Senate floor, and before galleries crowded with women representatives of peace organisations the Democratic Senator Walsh defended the Treaty more strongly than most of its Republican adherents had done. Senator Walsh declared that the Treaty was vastly more than a feeble gesture. “It is a revolutionary pronouncement,” ho said. The vote was taken after. Senator Borah, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, had read a report saying that the treaty in no way impaired the right; of self-defence of any nation. The report declared the committee’s understanding that the Monroe Doctrine was considered a part ot the nation’s security and a part of the system of self-defence.

The Sole Opponent “NOT WORTH A POSTAGE STAMP.’’ Received Wednesday, 7.40 P- m - WASHINGTON, Jan. 16. The effort of Senator Blaine, tho only o-pponent of the Pact, against the British correspondence was prefaced bv a statement from him denying the right of “the British Empire to rule the four quarters of the globe. Just as he had uttered these words, Sir Esme Howard (British Ambassador) entered the diplomatic gallery and seated himself. , The last few minutes of the debate were mixed and full of contrast. Many senators told why they would votq for the treaty although they believed it to be ineffective. , Senator Glass declared he did not consider it “worth a postage stamp but it would be a “Psychological mistake” to defeat it. Tlio ratification of the treaty leaves the way open for the debate to-morrow on the “fifteen cruiser ” bill. That there will be a determined fight over this measure it not doubted in view of the Senatorial approval of the f act. After the Senate approved of the Kellogg Treaty Senator Brook Hart, an advocate of Russian recognition, addressed the body: “This-country an Soviet Russia are the only two nations which have ratified this treaty. I hope these two great revolutionary countries will proceed to outlaw war throughout the world.” The vote on the treaty came with unexpected suddenness after a private agreement that the report ,°f Foreign Relations Committee should contain a clause indicating that the United States would reserve the right of self-defence and the Monroe Doctrine and that it does not obligate tho United States to use force against a nation violating tho treay. This clause is not a reservation and merely indicates what the committee interprets the treaty to be. , , . Although it was at first reported that tho Senate had adopted the treaty unanimously it is now disclosed that Senator Blaine cast a single vo e ;) gainst it. A last-minute effort by him to have the Senate express an opinion that nothing of British .or other correspondence accompanying the treaty shall be deemed a reservation was defeated. Mr Kellogg later said: “I am very much pleased that the Senate has given it? advice and consent to the ratification of tho Pact without reservation, amendment or condition.”