KELLOGG PACT

Hokitika Guardian, 16 January 1929, Page 5

KELLOGG PACT

RATIFIED BY SENATE. (United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). (Received this day at 11.25. a.m.) WASHINGTON, Jan. 15. The Senate unanimously ratified the Kellogg Pact. MR 808 AM.’S MOVE. (Received this day at 8.30. a.m.) WASHINGTON, Jan. 15. Mr Borah drew up a new compromise agreement to bring about a vote on the Kellogg Treaty. The new proposal would accede to the reservationjsls demands for a report from the (Foreign Relations Committee explaining the American interpretation ol the Pact, hut- would also make clear that the report was not in any way a reservation. Meantime on the Senate floor, before galleries crowded with women representatives of peace organisations, Democratic Senator Walsh defended the Treaty more strongly than most of its Republican adherents had done. Mr Walsh declared the Treaty was vastly more than a feeble gesture. He said: —‘‘It is a revolutionary' pronouncement.”

TREATY VOTE. WASHINGTON, Jan. 15. The Treaty vote was made possible by Senator Borah acceding to the interpretation ists’ demands for a report by the Foreign Relations Committee, placing its construction upon the Kellogg Pact. Borah yielded after insisting that the report he not considered. Coolidge regards the Kellogg Treaty as the most important subject before the Senate during his administration. He believes the Treaty will do more to stabilise conditions, and express the sentiments of the world, and increase the probability of a- permanent peace, than any factor within his knowledge. He regards it as an answer to any criticism that the United States lias motives of agression against any nation.