OUTLAWRY OF WAR

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20103, 23 March 1928, Page 7

OUTLAWRY OF WAR

THE PEACE PACT Delegates to League Strongly Support Proposal AN EFFECTIVE SCHEME (By Telegrapft-—Per Press Assn.—Copyright.) Received. March 22, 11.45 p.m. (A. A N.Z.) GENEVA, March 22. At the meeting of the Preparatory Disarmament Com mission, Mr John Gibson, United States representative, said he believed that the idea behind the proposed pact renouncing war could be made effective as an articulate expression of an almost universal will for peace. He believed such an expression would be more effective at present than any scheme of suppressing armaments. The United States believed that the most vital need of the moment was the creation of a universal desire for peace and confidence, and the pacific settlement of disputes. If that could be established : rmaments would naturally decrease. Public opinion at present did not demand the complete abolition of armaments. If it did so, no Govern-

ment could resist. Altogether ton nations, including Sweden, Poland and Belgium supported the proposed pact. Lord Cushendun declared that abolition of armaments would never give the degree of security attainable by a system of pacific settlement of disputes. M. Hennings pointed out that armaments were only one of many causes of international insecurity. FRANCE AND AMERICA INDEPENDENT AGREEMENT HOPEFUL PROSPECTS. (A.P.A.-Sun) PARIS, March 21. According to Le Matin and Petit Parisien there is ground to believe that as a result of the Geneva conversations a way may be found for France to meet Mr Kellogg’s wishes for a Pranco-American war outlawry agreement not infringing on either the League Covenant or the Monroe Doctrine.