OUTLAWING WAR

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 14 January 1928, Page 7

OUTLAWING WAR

NEGOTIATIONS BETWEEN AMERICA AND FRANCE (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) (Australian & N.Z. Cable Association) NEW YORK,. 12th Jam . The "New York Herald Tribune's" Washington corespondent says that Mr Kellogg asked France to-day to accept M. Briand's original proposal of outlawry of war, with the inclusion of Britain, Germany, Italy, and Japan. Ho explained that France's aggression war proposal was extraneous to the present discussion. In a .Note sent to M. Claudel the original text of M. Briand's proposal, made public, revealed that M. Briand requested a treaty of renunciation of war as an instrument of national policy. Recent despatches from Paris, giving the official view, of the Foreign Office, expressed displeasure oyer' the fact that the United States wonted to do: this very thing. Mr Kellogg, noting: this discrepancy said: "I earnestly.hope that this is of no particular significance and that it may not be taken as an indication that the Government of France will find itself, unable to join with the Government of tho United States " PARTS, 12th Jan. A fresh communication from Mr Kellogg in reply to Mr Briand suggests that, the principal powers participate in the preparation of a draft declaration against war. Political circles deduce that the whole negotiations are slipping out of M. Briand's control, and that French diplomatic officials are most likely to find solace in a Franco-American arbitration treaty, to which all efforts are now directed.