MUCH OR LITTLE.

Waikato Times, Volume 104, Issue 17492, 28 August 1928, Page 7

MUCH OR LITTLE.

WHAT THE PACT MAY WIS AIM. ENGLISH PRESS COMMENT. (By Telegrapn—Press Assn. —Copyright-) (Australian Pros'! Association 1 LONDON, August 27. Most of the newspapers in Britain devoted their first editorial article today to the peace pact. That appearing in the Times has obviously been carefully and deliberately phrased for American consumption. It says:— The terms of the pact arc vague and nebulous. However, if the price of signing it appears to he a somewhat sceptical commitment to a nebulous ideal, this may very hopefully be undertaken if it means that the great, wealthy and rapidly rising American Power lying between a straining Europe and an East in turmoil will really lend a hand to render war more difficult. America rejected the League of Nations. A second failure on the part of the United States could with difficulty be borne. This, happily, is not anticipated. The new treaty will mean much or little, to the extent It has or has not the support of its American authors.

The Daily Telegraph remarks that the notes which some of the Powers, including Britain, added to the text of the pact do not detract from the new international creed. It expresses and bears the same relation to those notes as a Judge's obiter dicta to his binding judgments. The Daily Herald alone is very sceptical. It describes the treaty as "a peace pact by permission of the warmongers," and says it is full of serious loopholes.