VERGING ON SARCASM

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 130, 1 March 1928, Page 9

VERGING ON SARCASM

UNITED STATES NOTE TO FRANCE "EXPANSIVE GESTURE OF WORLD ’ PEACE WHICH WAS IGNORED” KELLOGG TAKES BRIAND TO TASK: THE HAND OF SENATOR BORAH By Telegraph—Press Association.—Copyright. (Rec. February 29, 7.30 p.m.) .Washington, February 28. The Government’s Note regarding the outlawry of war to France it characterised as sharp, “verging at times on sarcastic.” Senator Borah’s hand is seen in one of the most pointed diplomatic documents that has come out of Mr. Kellogg’s office. There is a strong

expectation at Washington that after this Note little more will be heard from M. Briand, and, if this is true, it is believed Mr. Kellogg will have ieft it on record that he made an expansive gesture of world peace, which was ignored. Mr. Kellogg said: “I cannot avoid feeling that if Governments should publicly acknowledge they can openly deal with this ideal in a technical spirit, and must insist upon the adoption, .of reservations impairing the true significance of their common endeavours they would be in effect only recording their impotence to the keen disappointment of mankind in general.” Mr. Kellogg takes issue with M. Briand’s contention that French commitments under the League of Nations stand in the way of an outlawry treaty, and points out that various nations at the recent Pan-American Conference adopted a resolution condemning war as an instrument of national policy, despite the fact that they are members of the League of Nations.