Evening star., 1927-05-29
TREATY IS DRAF TED
FOR BAN|SH|NG WAR
Box Foundation, With BRAND
Suggestion in Mind, Asks
U. S. Cooperation.
BY the Associated Press.

NEW YORK. May 2s.-A draft
treaty, to provide the machinery
under which could be carried out the
suggestion made last month to the
American people by Aristide BRAND.
French foreign minister, that France
would be willing to enter into an
engagement with America mutually
outlawing war" was made public to-
day by the American Foundation. The
foundation maintains the American
peace award. founded by Edward Box.
The treaty form, which is offered
as practical application Of NJ.
Brands suggestion. which was made
through the Associated Press on April
6. the tenth anniversary Of the en-
trance Of the United States into the
World War, seeks to outlaw war. not
by fiat,sbut by substituting binding
methods Of solving all disputes.
Signatories Bound.
Its main point is that it binds its
signatories, in any dispute of what.
ever character, to use one or another
of possible methods of peaceful settle
ment. Aside from the normal proc.
esses Of diplomacy and mediation, the
draft treaty offers I'd conciliation; (2D
arbitration, by special tribunals for
The Hague Court of Arbitration, and
(3) judicial settlement, by the Perma.
nent Court of International Justice.
more generally known as the World
Court.
If conciliation should fail, the treaty
binds the signatories to submit their
dispute either to arbitration or judicial
settlement. The conciliation commits
sion's findings would not be final, hut
the arbitration or judicial awards
would be.
Under the proposed treaty the sigma.
tories would agree not to invade each
others territory and to refrain from
concentration Of arms. from mobiliza-
tion, from fighting and from any hos
tile act whatever. except in actual
defense or to repel aggression.
Statement by Foundations.
In making public the draft treaty
the American Foundation says:
The treaty now proposed assumes
that every dispute of whatever nature,
that has not yielded to the usual
possibilities Of diplomatic adjustment
can be settled In any one Of the three
ways offered. With out prescribing
any one OF these in any given case,
or even for any given class Of ques-
tions, the treaty obligates its sigma.
tories merely to pursue the peaceful
method Of their choice"
The statement says that the only
new machinery set up by the treaty
Is the conciliation commission, which,
however, Is not permanent organiza-
tion. In connection with the use of
the permanent Court of International
Justice as one Of the methods of set.
Ting dispute, the statement declares
| that adherence to the world court by
the United States would be q logical
| necessity.
The proposed treaty, the statement
added, would mean one fundamental
| change in the policy Of the United
States. that of admitting that every
| dispute is susceptible Of some kind OF
| peaceful settlement. This means the
omission of the clause, hitherto al
ways insisted on by the United States
In its arbitration treaties, exempting
| all questions affecting the vital in
terests. independence or national hon.
| or" Of the United States.
The draft treaty has been sent to
| prominent Americans in political life,
/ universities and Industrial heads
| throughout the United States. In
cluded with it is a draft OF a proposed
| joint resolution of the Senate and
| House of Representatives, requesting
the President of the United States to
| consider the expediency Of proposing
the treaty to the nations Of the world.