PACT TO OUTLAW WAR.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19834, 3 January 1928, Page 9

PACT TO OUTLAW WAR.

USE OF ARBITRATION. FRANCE AND AMERICA. WASHINGTON PROPOSALS. RESERVATIONS PROVIDED. THIRD NATION FACTOR. By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyriffht. (Received January 2, 5.5 p.m.) A. and N.Z. NEW YORK, Jan. 1. The Washington correspondent of the New York Tribune says the Secretary of State. Mr. A. B. Kellogg, has handed to the French Ambassador, M. Emile Daescliner, the draft of the proposed war outlawry treaty between France and the United States, which it is understood is designed to enlarge the former arbitration agreement "to banish forever war between the two nations." It is reported that the treaty contains the following main provisions:— That France and the United States will engage to submit all differences to arbitration by means of an international commission of arbitration. That differences of a juridical nature be submitted to the Permanent Court of International Justice of the Hague, or other tribunals mutually agreed upon, under the reservation that Senate approves and it is compatible with the constitutional laws of France. That arbitration jvill not be applicable in the fcllowing three instances:—Questions concern : .ng interior politics; to any international complication involving a third nation: and to problems to which the Monroe doctrine applies. It is believed that Mr. Kellog lays stress on the point that the pact should not be unilateral, but should be one to which other great Powers should feel free to affix their signatures. ( HOPES OF M. BRIAND. INSTRUMENT FOR PEACE. OPTIMISM REGARDING RESULT. A. and N.Z. PARIS, Deo. 31. The French Foreign Minister, M. Briand, said in an interview: "It is my fervent conviction that 1928 will be marked by a solemn pact between Trance and America outlawing war." M. Bmnd did not disguise the importance he attached to the proposed pact. He expressed the opinion that if it succeeded it would be the most powerful instrument for peace in the world, and would eventually extend and embrace other nations. A Polish-Lithuanian conflict was, he said, avoided, because of the spirit of conciliation that was shown. He was, ho said, convinced that 1928 would see a new step in the development of the international spirit and the application of arbitration to the organisation of peace."