RENUNCIATION OF WAR.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3837, 28 August 1928, Page 2

RENUNCIATION OF WAR.

SIGNING OF THE KELLOGG PACT. In connection with the signing of the Kellogg Pact for the renunciation of war, the Prime Minister (Rt. Hon. J. G. Coates) published the following message yesterday: “To-day will be signed at Paris the treaty proposed by the Government of the United States for the renunciation of war, by which the signatories solemnly condemn recourse to war for the solution of international controversies, renounce war as an instrument of national policy in their relations with one another, and agree that a solution of any dispute or conflict between them shall never be sought except by pacific means. “No people in the world have striven more conscientiously for peace than the British, and the invitation to sign this treaty as original parties which was extended to Great Britain and the Dominions was accepted with enthusiasm by each and all of them. “The Treaty is to be open for signature by all the Powers of the world, and I feel confident that every New Zealander will wholeheartedly endorse Mr. Kellogg’s hope that the simple procedure proposed by the Treaty will bring mankind’s age-long aspirations for universal peace nearer to practical fulfilment than ever before in the history of the world.”