BRITAIN AND AMERICA

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 245, 6 January 1928, Page 9

BRITAIN AND AMERICA

CANADA AS INTERPRETER MADE TREATY POSSIBLE OTTAWA, Wednesday. Mr. P. H. Kerr, the secretary to the Rhodes Trustees, who was secretary to Mr. Lloyd George when ne was Prime Minister, from 1916 to 1921, in addressing members of the Canadian Club, said Canada was best qualihed to act as interpreter between Britain and the United States. It was Canada, said Mr. Kerr, that made the Washington Disarmament

Treaty possible. Canada had signed the Covenant of the League of Nations, and had expressed approval of the Locarno Pact. Therefore it assumed responsibility in protecting world peace. Mr. Kerr expressed the opinion that if Britain and the United States had appointed delegates of similar ability to those at the Washington Conference, the Geneva Disarmament Conference might have had different results. —A. and N.Z. WAR DECLARED A CRIME The renunciation of war by members of the League of Nations, was made by unanimous resolution on September 24, when the Assembly adopted a resolution, as follows:

The Assembly, recognising the solidarity which unites the community of nations; being inspired by a firm desire for the maintenance of general peace; being convinced that a war of aggression can never serve as a means of settling international disputes and is in consequence an international crime; considering that a solemn renunciation of all wars of aggression would tend to create an atmosphere of general confidence calculated to facilitate the progress of the work undertaken with a view to disarmament, declares: (1) That all wars of aggression are, and shall always be, prohibited;

(2) that every pacific means must be employed to settle disputes, of every description, which may arise between States. The Assembly declares that the States’ members of the League are under an obligation to confirm to these two principles.