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Hokitika Guardian, 26 June 1928, Page 2

When the record of the present Washington administration becomes history, says an English critic, the outstanding achievement may not bo sustained prosperity which seemed .to have characterised it. Bather the historian may be inclined to select as its crowning achievement the earnest efforts which it made towards the promotion or peace through international agreement to outlaw war. Whether these efforts are to he crowned, with success cannot of course lie determined now, that they are a powerful factor in bringing about an ideal for which the world is longing.- and devoutly hoping is conceded by all who have followed the successive steps of the Ooolidge administration. The latest note of Secretary of Stale Kellogg on the subject of outlawry of war has been warmly received by the British diplomats, according to press dispatches, and is being seriously considered iu the hope of a common agreement. The note will receive the attention of the Domini- y. Governments before a final reply is framed. The policy of the British Government always has been to eliminate every possible chance of war and it will lie strange indeed if warm co-operation is not the final outcome. The tone of tin- London press indicates how near the two nations are in finding a common ground of agreement. The London “Times,” fur instance, expresses the view that “The action of the American Government stimulates hope, and marks a turning point in international politics.” Naturally. America and Great Britain are not dealing with this subject through any fear of future trouble as between the two nations. Such a war, as Sir Austen Chamberlain recently declared, is unthinkable. But the example which iliose two world leading powers can display in the form of an agreement to outlaw war will of itself be a victory for peace, of supreme and far reaching influence. It will be the crowning glory of the Ooolidge administration if lief ore it passes into history it shall have succeeded in its unselfish and humanitarian endeavour to make pence a. fact throughout the world by a general agreement among nations that war is an outlaw and is to trouble mankind no more. That seems n gigantic undertaking. It is. But it is not impossible of attainment, particularly if the sympathy and aid of the British Empire can he assured.