New Zealand Invited

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 363, 25 May 1928, Page 1

New Zealand Invited

WAR-OUTLAWRY DISCUSSION Official Communication Received NEW ZEALAND is to take her place with the nations of the world in discussing the proposal • for a multi-lateral treaty for the outlawing of war. [ The.’.official, invitation to participate in the negotiations has been received from the ? United States Government* LJ. .

Press Association. WELLINGTON, To-day.

Th© Prime Minister, the: Right Hon. J. G. Coates, announced to-day the receipt from his Majesty’s Government in Great Britain of the text of th© following communication addressed by th© United States ambassador in London to th© Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs: “Sir, in the Note which you addressed to me on May 19, 1928, you were good enough to inform my Government that his Majesty’s Government in Great Britain had been in communication with his Majesty’s Governments, and with the Government of India, and had ascertained that they were all in cordial agreement with the general principle of the multilateral treaty for the renunciation of war, which the Government of the United States proposed on April 13, 1928. You added that you felt confident, therefore, that his Majesty’s Governments in the Dominions and the Government of India were prepared to accept an invitation to participate in the conclusion of such a treaty as that proposed by the Government of the United States. “I have been instructed to state to

you that my Government has received this information with the keenest satisfaction. My Government has hoped from the ouset of the present negotiations that the Governments of the Dominions, and the Government of India, would feel disposed to become parties to the suggested anti-war treaty. It is, moreover, most gratifying to the Government of the United States to ipairn that his Majesty’s Governments in the Dominions, and the Government of India, are so favourably inclined- - towards the treaty for renunciation of war. “As to the wish to participate therein, i-ndividuallv and as original signatories, my Government, for its part, is most happy to accede to the suggestion contained in your Note to me of May 19, 1928. “Accordingly I have been instructed to extend through you to his Majesty’s Governments, in Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa, and to the Government of India, a cordial invitation, in the name of the Government of the United States, to become original parties to the treaty for the renunciation of war, which is now under consideration. “Pursuant to my instructions I also have the honour to inform you that the Government of the United States will address, through you to his Majesty’s. Governments in Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa, and to the Government of India, at the same time, and In the same manner, as to the other Governments whose participation in the proposed treaty in the first instance is eontemplater and any future communications which it may make on the subject of the treaty, after it has been acquainted with views of all (Governments to which its Note of April 13, 1928 was addressed. “I have the honour to be, with the higher consideration, sir, your most obedjenf, humble servant, A. B Houghton.” The terms of the reply, to be oy the Zealand Government will be published, as soon as possible.