ANTI-WAR TREATY

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 268, 2 February 1928, Page 1

ANTI-WAR TREATY

POLICY OF UNITED STATES

IN NO HURR Y TO SIGN PACT

By Cable.—Press Association. — Copyright. Received 10.30 a.m. WASHINGTON, Wednesday. STATE Department officials expressed surprise when they were shown despatches from Paris crediting the French authorities with the statement that France and the United States would sign an anti-war treaty.

At Washington this week the Secretary of State, Mr. F. B. Kellogg, said , . _ , that no treaty of any kind could be signed before his return from his trip to Ottawa. It is learned elsewhere that ge situation with regard to the antiwar treaty has not changed since a fortnight ago, when it was intimated that a consummated project was im-

possible for several months if at all. There is a second treaty of arbitration in the negotiations between parig and Wash i n gton and it is expected that it will be signed within a month. The preamble to the arbitraj tion treaty will contain a clause depreeating war as a national policy, but the | treaty itself cannot be considered as | an anti-war pact.—A. and N.Z.