OUTLAWRY OF WAR.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 17944, 1 May 1928, Page 9

OUTLAWRY OF WAR.

America’s Peace Proposals.

VIEW OF FRENCH RESERVATIONS

(United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) WASHINGTON, April 29.

Mr F. B. Kellogg, addressing the American Society of International Law, declared in substance that the reservations embodied in the French draft of the treaty for the outlawry of war, presented no effective bar to the acceptance of his own draft treaty, with its provisions for a simple renunciation of war. as an instrument of. national policy by the world’s Powers, without qualifications. ,He added that the chief stumbling block in the French draft' might be the requirement for practically universal acceptance by the nations of the world before it became effective. This, le held, was impractical and consideration Yas not required by the actual conditions.

Mr Kellogg contended that the Covenant of the League of Nations imposed no affirmative primary obligation to go to war. He invited the signatories of the Locarno Pact to adhere to the anti-wa* treaty.

The speaker asserted that it is unnecessary to declare in the treaty that if a signatory violated it, all the other contracting Powers would automatically be released as against that Power. The proposed treaty does not impair the right of self-defence by States whose neutrality has been guaranteed. France could also sign the treaty, and thus secure its advantages without in any way impairing France’s obligations to such States.