RENUNCIATION OF WAR

Waikato Times, Volume 103, Issue 17408, 22 May 1928, Page 7

RENUNCIATION OF WAR

MR KELLOGG GRATIFIED. AT BRITAIN’S REPLY. INVITATION TO THE DOMINIONS. (By Telegraph.—Press Assn.--Copyright.) (Australian Press Assn.—United Service.) WASHINGTON, May 20. The Secretary of State, Mr F. B. Kellogg, will invite the Governments of Ihe British Dominion within a few days to participate in a league to outlaw war which ho is socking to form. Mr Kellogg stated after the receipt of the British acceptance of his peace proposals that he would immediately invite all the Dominions and India to sign tho treaty separately. x lt was likely that Canada would negotiate a separate treaty for arbitration in disputes, separate from the outlawry of war pact. Mr Kellogg said he was greatly encouraged by the attitude of the British Government and the implied co-operalion of the Dominions, as he is anxious to have the British nations on his side. NEW YORK, May 20. Press comment in New York expresses satisfaction with Britain’s Note regarding the proposed pact to outlaw war.- The New York Times says; No step which Inter on may he found necessary can be regarded as a retreat from the main principle, which now has been heartily endorsed by Britain, which speaks also for the selfgoverning Dominions of the British Commonwealth. All that is left to do now is to devise legal means to cause that principle to be applied fruitfully in the practice of nations. That will bo triumph enough both for American diplomacy and for the peaceful desires of ail countries. LONDON, May 21. The diplomatic correspondent of the Daily Telegraph says lie regrets Britain did not send Washington a brief Note whole-heartedly accepting Mr Kellogg’s proposals without reservations, adding a memorandum on which British legal experts would have placed their reading of the American draft. This would have avoided the chilliness of legal arguments which tend to obscure the cordiality with which the British Government welcomes Washington’s initiative and promises to support it to the utmost of its power. What is Sir Austen Chamberlain’s definition of Britain’s Monroe doctrine concerning Egypt? asks the writer.