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Hokitika Guardian, 6 July 1928, Page 4

THE KEY OF SALVATION. “Mr Kellogg invites France, Britain, Germany, Italia, and Japan to enter with the United States into a SixRower Pact to renounce war amongst themselves,’’ asserts the “Observer.”

“ We say that this pact would be more efficient, morally and practically, than any covenant unshared and unsupported by America. Wo repeat that it proposes to put the whole question of world-peace on a new and firmer basis. It is the very key of salvation in this matter. The Six-Power Pact, says Mr Kellogg, would be open subsequently to the adherence of any and every nation. And what does it imp]y as a safeguard ? —as a mode of action in emergency? It means this, above all, that any contracting nation which might be tempted otherwise to break loose in an access of passion, will think thrice and ten times before violating an engagement with the United States. Another month’s delay in 1914 would have saved the world. The American plan means that every principal nation would have to adopt the vital maxim, ‘ Wait before you fight.’ We say vital because we consider' one thing to be its certain as anything can be in this mortal sphere, if on the plain lines of the American plan we eliminate the possibility of another world-war- in a hurry, there will never be another world-war at all.”