KELLOGG TREATY

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 361, 23 May 1928, Page 9

KELLOGG TREATY

DISCUSSION IN AMERICA (Australian Press Association) Reed. 9.5 a.m. OTTAWA, Tuesday. Canada has officially been invited to take part in the treaty proposed by Mr. F. B. Kellogg, United States Secretary of State. A Washington message says Mr. Kellogg announces that in the British Note in reply to the proposal of the United States for a pact to >utlaw war. Sir Austen Chamberlain. Secretary' for Foreign Affairs, informed the Government of the United States that the British Government had been in communication with the Governments of the Dominions and India. Sir Austen added that he felt confident the Governments of the Dominions and India were prepared to accept an invitation to take part in the conclusion of such a treaty. There is no diminution in American opposition to the fourth article of the French draft treaty specifying thu.t the contemplated convention shall not abridge the structure of all the existing treaties. The hope is expressed in Washington that th€: British Not** will stand eventually" as an unqualified acceptance of Mr. Kellogg's draft. It is now r felt that Article 10 of Sir Austen's Note may be found to be only a specific declaration of Britain’s intention to defend all her lines of communication. In that case it would amount merely to a definition of selfdefence rather than to a reservation It is pointed out that Mr. Kellogg has already declared that the right of selfdefence is inherent in any treaty.