“KELLOGG PACT ONLY INTERNATIONAL KISS,” STATES PROF. MORGAN

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6815, 19 January 1929, Page 9

“KELLOGG PACT ONLY INTERNATIONAL KISS,” STATES PROF. MORGAN

Popular Sedative

EVERY MODERN WAR ONE OF SELF-DEFENCE

NO PROVISION FOR PUNISHMENT

United Service. Received Friday, 11.25 p.m. LONDON, Jun. IS.

“The Kellogg Pact is only an international kiss,” declared Professor John Hartman Morgan, the distinguished journalist and diplomatist. “It is dangerous and bad and will act on some people as a sedative and on most as ac opiate. Either it means nothing or has any interpretation that any signa--, tory chooses to apply. It makes no provision to punish anyone breaking it. No war in the past two centuries but has been made, according to the belligerents, in self-defence. By excluding stlf-defensivc wars from the pact, you exclude every war 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 tho American principle of getting in tho first blow. The pact is mere words. The United States is the father of more illcgctimato 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 be almost the largest Navy in tho world, makes me feel a certain amount of uneasiness,”

Diplomatic View

MORE IMPORTANT THAN ANY ELABORATE TABLES. British Official Wireless. RUGBY, Jan. 17. Mr. W. C. Bridgcman, First Lord of tho Admiralty, in a speech last night expressed great satisfaction that the American Sonatc. hud ratified the Kel--1 ogg pact, which, in his opinion, was a vory important step forward in the cause of peace. It was far moro important than any elaborate tables as to tho exact amount of armament each country was to have.