“A SPLENDID GESTURE”

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20183, 27 June 1928, Page 7

“A SPLENDID GESTURE”

THE PEACE PACT | Mr. Kellogg’s Proposals Well Received in London FAVOURABLE COMMENT. [ By Telegraph —Per Press Assn.—Copyright ] [ British Official Wireless. | RUGBY’, r-nc 26. With regard to Mr Kellogg’s new Note, it is pointed out that participation of the Locarno signatories make it certain that resort to war in violation of those agreemnts would also violate the present treaty and release the parties to the Locarno pacts. Mr Kellogg hopes that the nations “will be able promptly to indicate their readiness to accept without qualification or reservation tho form of treaty now’ suggested by the United States.” / British press comments on the new Note are generally favourable. The Daily News, which hopes that the pact will be accepted by the great nations, says that the splendid gesture has caught the imagination here as in the United States, and leininds France that Senator Borah has stated that it is most inconceivable that the United States would stand by in the case of a gross breach of the mutilateral treaty to which it is a party. Questioned in the House of Commons, Commander Locker-Lampson (Undersecretary for Foreign Affairs) said that the new’ Note marked a considerable advance in public opinion as reflected in the Press and strongly favours the aims of the American Secretary of State. It is assumed that should any further communications pass between' London and Washington they will be directed towards strengthening the working of the KeJlogg plan.