AMERICAN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 30 April 1928, Page 3

AMERICAN NEWS

Australian Press Assn.—United Service OUTLAWRY OF WAR. (Received tins day at !l .'ll) a.m.) WASHINGTON'. April 20. Mr Kellogg, addressing ihe American Society ol luternatinli.il Law. dei hired in .substance that the reservations embodied in the French draft of the treaty tor the outlawry of war presented no effective bar to acceptance of bis own ilral'L treaty, with its provisions I'm- a simple renunciation of war as an instrument of national poncy by the world's powers without lie added that the chief stumbling block in the French (Irak migliL I • the requirement for practically universal acceptance by the nations of the world keloro ii liccamc effective. This, lie held, was imprac tie-able, and consideration was not required by tile actual i omlii ions. Air Kellogg contended the (ou n.mi of the League ol Nations imposed no aHi fii i;i ti V 0 piimary oblige imu in go to war. fie invited signatories in ili - Locarno Comparts in adheir to the anti-war treaty. The speaker usscric : it was unnecessary to declare in the treaty that if a signatory violated it,, all other contracting I’owns would automatic ally lie; released as again? t that power. The proposed treaty does licit impair the right of sell-clefin e. Slates whose neutrality has been guaranteed by France could also sign the 1 treaty and thus secure its advantages 1 without in any way impairing France’s -‘ obligations to such states.