MAY NOT RATIFY PACT

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 515, 19 November 1928, Page 9

MAY NOT RATIFY PACT

UNITED STATES SENATE CAUSES OF OPPOSITION (Australian and N.Z. Press Association) NEW YORK, Saturday. The Washington correspondent of the “New York Times” says that today, for the first time, a feeling of doubt has clouded the hitherto optimistic impression prevailing there that the Kellogg Pact for the outlawry of war would be ratified by the Senate in the session to be commenced on December 3. That session will end by constitutional limit"'* 1 on April 4, when Mr. Herbert C. Hoover will be inaugurated is President. The correspondent ays the decision to pass a farm relief measure will probibly leave little time to consider the treaty. A factor which may adversely affect the prospects of its early ratification is now to be found in the hostile reaction in some foreign countries to Mr. Coolidge’s Armistice Day speech. What is said in Washington indicates a fear that not only may the provocation caused by the President’s plain talk endanger the ratification of the pact by foreign governments, but that the manifest resentment of European editors, and the hostility of speakers on the Goverment benches in the House of Commons in the debate, are calculated to stimulate opposition to the pact in the United States Senate.