OUTLAWING WAR

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XXV, Issue 7614, 7 January 1928, Page 2

OUTLAWING WAR

AMDRirJN NOTE TO BRITAIN THE LEAGUE COVENANT POINTS TO BE CLEARED Australian and N.Z. Cable. LONDON, January 5. A copy of Mr Frank B. Kellogg’s Note has been formally handed to . the British Foreign Office, which at present is not commenting on it. Official quarters broadly approve, and express the opinion that a multilateral treaty would not cut across the League Covenant, though much depends on the text. It is pointed out, however, that the Covenant in certain circumstances permits, and even commands, war. Furthermore, in certain limit-, ed circumstances like Locarno, Britain is committed to sanctions which America does net mention. Therefore, till these points are clarified, there is no prospect of any official British communication. Britain may be directly linked in the discussions when the proposed enlargement of root arbitration treaties expiring in June is considered. Mr Gilbert Murray, president of the League of Nations Union, says that America’s proposal and the League’s resolutions declaring war a crime are equally weak in the sense that every nation will glibly agree till a crisis, when it will say that war is being thrust upon it. If America can devise a treaty completely outlawing war, he is confident that it will be enthusiastically accepted by all nations.