The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1928-09-06
KELLOGG PACT TO
HAVE OPPOSITION
Claim Made Treaty Gives 9th
er Nations Unfair Advant-
age Over U. S.
WILL BE LIVELY ISSUE
Author of All World Peace
Program Believes Ameri-
cas- Interests Guarded

Washington, Sept. 5.-Accept-
ance of the Kellogg antiwar treaty
by Great Britain and France with
numerous reservations protecting
their vital national interest brings
to the fore the question of Ameri-
can reservations to protect Ameri-
can interests.
American reservations fall in
to two classifcations. In one
class would be those making it
clear that in entering the war re-
munication, compact we do not in
volve ourselves in any implied en-
gagement to act in concert with
other powers or otherwise against
a nation violating the treaty.
In the other class would be
reservation of our un.mparied free
dom to safeguard the security of
the United States.
Whether such reservations are
to be proposed by President Cool
idge in submitting the treaty to the
senate for ratification, is a ques-
ton that will loom large upon the
converting of congress in Deem
Der. 1t is also within the realm of
possibilities that these questions
presently will become of such mo-
ment that the candidates for presi-
dent will find it necessary to ex-
press themselves thereon before the
balloting in November.
Apparently, it is not the present
disposition of the Coolidge admin
istration to propose American res
ervations. Great Britain, France
and other nations accepted the
treaty only with explicit reserva-
lions protecting their intrests and
the Coolidge administration accept
ed the reservations. There is
nothing explicit on record safe
guarding the most important
American rights, interests and
policies, such as the Monroe Doc
trine and our policy of nonentang-
cement in transoceanic affairs.
Secretary of State F. b. Kel-
logg has indicated the belief
American rights, interests and
policies are sufficiently safeguard
ed by implication of the terms of
the treaty and by the letter he ad-
dressed to the powers interpreting
the agreement. ..... -.
Great Britain, France and 9TH
er powers have pronounced the
Kellogg interpretative note of
June % a satisfactory understand
ing and record of the conditions ON
which they agree to renounce war
as an instrument of national pol
=. icy, but it is not unlikely they will
record these conditions more form
ally in reservations in the instru-
ments of ratification.
1t will be for the senate to de-
eide whether to accept the Kellogg
view that American rights and
policies are already sufficiently
safeguarded by implication or to
frame reservations explicitly pro-
tective of the structure of ma
tonal security we have reared in
the western hemisphere.
. Great Britain and France ac-
cepted the Kellogg treaty only on
condition that it be interpreted as
not forbidding a signatory to go
to war in self defense and as not
inconsistent with the covenant of
the League of Nations or the Loo
arno treaties under which they
may be obliged to adopt measures
of war against another nation.
This Interpretation Mr.. kellogg
embodied in his note of June 20.
The two powers also stipulated
that signatory powers be released
from the obligation to refrain
from war against any signatory
violating the agreement. This pro-
vision was Incorporated in, the