KELLOGG PACT.

Waikato Times, Volume 105, Issue 17605, 9 January 1929, Page 7

KELLOGG PACT.

AMERICAN RATIFICATION. ■■ i TENTATIVE UNDERSTANDING. EARLY SOLUTION POSSIBLE. (By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Coovrlsrht.) (Australian Press Association.) WASHINGTON, Jan. 7. The motion for the ratification of the Kellogg anti-war pact was debated again to-day in the Senate. An early agreement is thought probable. A tentative understanding calls for a report from the Foreign Relations Committee as to its interpretation of America's rights under the pact and for the transmission of that report to the other Powers. The interpretation is not to be made part of the Senate’s resolution ratifying the pact. It is uncertain, however, whether Mr W. E. Borah, chairman of the committee, will accept this. It is understood that the interpretive report would emphasise America’s right to defend her territory, the maintenance of the Monroe doctrine, and the negation of any obligation on the part of the United States to enforce the pact.

LATER. SENATOR’S OPPOSITION. “ IMPERIOUS IMPATIENCE.” ABANDONMENT OF NEUTRALITY. (By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Australian Press Association.) (Received Jan. 9, 11.45 a.m.) WASHINGTON, Jan. 8. Senator Moses in the Senate urged that the Kellogg Pact would be an incentive to war rather than its nations would bind the United States abolition. He urged that the exemptions set forth by adhering European to a recognition of their secret selfdefence treaties. He characterised Mr Kellogg’s activities as “ imperious impatience, which is well known to us who have seen him display it here.” He said: “The treaty amounts to the abandonment of any possibility of neutrality by the United States. It means that in any future war involving the great European Powers the United States would be in no position to contend for freedom of the seas. It would mean the triumph of the historic British claims to ignore neutral interests.”