U.S. PROPOSALS
(Australian & N.Z. Cable Association. FRENCH REPLY WASHINGTON, Jan. G. M. Briand’.s reply to Air Kellogg’s note changes the proposal to deal with ‘Avars of aggression,’’ and immediate official reaction here was unfavourable. Contrary to Parisian Press despatches that AI. Briand had accepted Air Kellogg’s proposal in prinepal, officii Is saw in the reply a rejection to AL Kellogg’s plan, and the abandonment by AI. Briand of his own original proposal. It is stated that, whatever the ultimate reaction will lie on the new Briand offer, it "ill require time to decide*.
One decision was reached to-day however. namely to reject the suggestion of Af. Briand that a treaty for renouncing aggressive war lx* forthwith signed by France and the United States. Such a bilateral treaty is held tantamount to a defensive alliance, and the French Ambassador, Af. Claudel, was planly informed to-day that the United States will enter no such arrangement. It is understood that Air Kellogg will continue conversations with AL Claudel, and if sufficient encouragement is felt, efforts may he made to sound the other Powers on the question of a multilateral declaration renouncing war as an instrument of national policy. The word aggressor is used quite incidentally, hut most effectively in AI. Briand’s note .It constitutes the chief stumbling block, and at the same time is the source of amazement to American officials. There is an intimation here that AL Briand avowedly admits that the League of Nations is not exclusively the instrument of peace, but though Articles ten to sixteen rely upon war as one of the keystones of its structure, the question is asked if Air Kellogg’s proposal for a multilateral treaty might conflict with the Covenant of the League, would not a bi-la-teral treaty between France and the United States, outlawing aggressive war, be equally conflicting? The American position is that it is impossible to define in advance what constitute!) an aggfessjye nfiti O P*
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Hokitika Guardian, 9 January 1928, Page 2
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