PERMANENT PEACE

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIII, 7 January 1929, Page 6

PERMANENT PEACE

SETTLEMENT OF DISPUTES

SHINED BY THIRTEEN NATIONS

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WASHINGTON. slh January

Al I lie closing of Hie plenary session of t le* Pan-American arlntratiou conlercme. every American national, except .Argentine, which was not represented formally, signed two virtually similar agreements for compulsory conciliation and arbitral ion disputes arising among themselves.

Air Kellogg and others pronounced it one of the greatest steps ever taken toward permanent peace. Thirteen nations signed with reservations protecting the principle of national defence and domestic sovereignty.

MULTILATERAL TREATIES

WASHINGTON, sth January

Mullilaleral treaties of arbitration and conciliation negotiated by the PanAmerican Conference, were signed to-day by delegates of twenty American Republics. Argentina did nol participate in (he conference.