THE KELLOGG PACT

Evening Star, Issue 20053, 19 December 1928, Page 4

THE KELLOGG PACT

AMERICA AND RATIFICATION LONG COMMITTEE DEBATE. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright WASHINGTON, December 17. Efforts were initiated to-day to got agreement between the Kellogg Pact sponsors and tho “ big navy men ” in the Senate, whereby both measures would bo considered concurrently. Today a long debate on the pact occurred in the Committee of Foreign Relations, and there is no prospect of an immediate vote in the committee. Several senators, including Senator Reed, are understood .to have insisted un the inclusion of interpretive resolutions. Senator Borah declared that he intended to hold daily sessions of tho committee until a vote is taken whether the pact shall be reported as it stands or with interpretations. President Coolidge sent for Senator Shipstead to persuade him to abandon his support of tho interpretive resolutions, but the senator would not say what action he will take. Much of the discussion in the committee to-day dealt with Sir Austen Chamberlain’s Note -.pressing the understanding that the pact would not deprive Britain of the rights of selfdefence of her far-flung interests. The question also arose whether a similar interpretation of tho pact for the United States made it necessary to accompany American ratification of the pact with a declaration concerning the Monroe Doctrine. Australian Press Association, SUPPORT OF THE CHURCHES. Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright. WASHINGTON. December 17. A representative of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ of America presented President Coolidge with a petition bearing 180,000 names, expressing the hope that tho Senate would promptly ratify the Kellogg Pact. The petition also requested that war be made a crime by a specific provision of international law in tho men filmic.—Australian Press Association.