COOLIDGE SIGNS PACT WITH HUGE GOLD PEN

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 565, 18 January 1929, Page 9

COOLIDGE SIGNS PACT WITH HUGE GOLD PEN

STATELY CEREMONY IN HISTORIC ROOM AT WHITE HOUSE (Australian and N.Z. Press Association) Received 9.5 a.m. WASHINGTON, Thursday. j President Coolidge signed the Kellogg Treaty with an impressive ceremony in the presence of the Cabinet, Vice-President Charles Curtis, and members of the Senate in the historic east room of the White House. Many photographers recorded the scene, including film cameramen. The treaty and the ratification document, bedecked with red ribbon and gold seals, lay on ihe Presidential desk, which was placed in the centre of the room for the occasion. President Coolidge and Mr. F. B. Kellogg, Secretary of State and author of the pact, entered together. The former picked up a huge gold pen about eight inches long elaborately engraved, and affixed his signature, after which he handed the pen to Mr. Kellogg, who countersigned the pact. President Coolidge then shook hands with Mr. Kellogg, Senator Borah and several others, and left the room. In the House of Representatives Mr. F. E. Korell, Republican member for Oregon, introduced a motion under which shipments of arms, munitions or any implements of war from the United States to any signatory violating the Kellogg pact would be prohibited. Mr. Korell said such a move would make more effective the effort to outlaw war. “VERY IMPORTANT” FIRST LORD’S OPINION British Official Wireless Reed. 11 a.m. RUGBY, Thurs. The Right Hon. W. C. Bridgeman, First Lord of the Admiralty, in a speech last night, expressed great satisfaction that the American Senate had ratified the Kellogg Pact, which in his opinion was a very important step forward in the cause of peace and far more important than any elaborate tables as to the exact amount of armaments each country was to have.