KELLOGG PEACE PACT

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 531, 7 December 1928, Page 4

KELLOGG PEACE PACT

INTERESTING ADDRESS AT AVONDALE The December meeting: of the Avondale Women’s Club was held in .Blockhouse Bay .Picture Mall on Tuesday, the president, Airs. J. W. Kealy, occupying the chair. The speaker of the afternoon was the Rev. AY. G. Monckton, who delivered a lecture on the Kellogg Peace Pact. The lecture aroused Keen interest, among the audience being the headmaster and senior scholars of Avondale South School. Mr. Monckton traced the history of the pact from its origin in a note from M.. Bnand to Air. Kellogg, to its final development in which the diplomatic skill of Sir Austen Chamberlain played such a part. The pact, which was not a formal treaty, but, to use Al. Briand's term, a pact “to outlaw war,” and settle differences by pacific means, was signed bv representatives of 15 nations, each Dominion of the British Empire being represented apart from the mother country. The speaker said the pact was the result of moral and spiritual force and that it depended on the democracies of the world whether or not the pact was kept. When all men and all wisdom united in one war only, the war against poverty, disease and sin. which all impeded progress, there would be a new heaven and a new' earth The speaker was accorded a hearty vote of thanks. Items were given by the following: Miss Eilene Riley (recitation;, Miss Adeline Tilley (song). Tea was served by Alesdames Annett and H. A. Taylor. The club has now gone into recess until Alarch.