OUTLAWING WAR

Evening Star, Issue 19804, 1 March 1928, Page 4

OUTLAWING WAR

FRANCE AND AMERICA MR KELLOGG’S NOTE CRITICISED. v WASHINGTON, February 28. / The Government’s Note to France is characterised as sharp and “ verging at times on the sarcastic.” Senator Borah’s hand is seen in one of the moat pointed diplomatic, documents

that has come out of Mr Kellogg’s office. There is strong expectation at Washington that after tins Note little more will be heard from M. Brland. and if this is true it is believed that Mr Kellogg will have left it on record that he made an expansive gesture of world peace which was ignored. Mr Kellogg said: “ I cannot avoid feeling that if the Governments should publicly acknowledge that they can only deal with this ideal in a technical spirit and must insist upon the adoption of reservations impairing the true significance of their common endeavors, 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 the French commitments under the League of Nations stand in the way of an outlawry treaty, and points out that the 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. FAVORABLE ACTION RECOMMENDED. ■WASHINGTON, February 29. (Received March 1, at 8.50 a.m.) 'The Senate Foreign Relations Committee decided to report the new French arbitration treaty to the Senate with a recommendation for favorable action.