Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-11-12
The Peace Pact

me PEACE forces Of the United States are unani-
NOUS IN their support Of the Kellogg pact for the re-
ANNEXATION of war, is the verdict Of Frederick J. Libby,
e~e0utlve secretary of the National Council for the
prevention of War. Libby contends that for the senate
20 refuse to ratify the peace pact would be an inter-
National dissster, and would serve to further widen the
suif between the United States and the powers ot
Europe.
Senator Borah has indicated he will rise in his might
and smite the kellogg pact as he smote the League OF
nations and World Court, and several senators of the
same belligerent sentiments are expected to follow the
Idaho gentleman in his campaign TO safeguard America
against "entangling alliances However. both the
League Of Nations and the World Court we're proposed
BY democratic leaders, and the fact that Kellogg ard
the republican party assume all the credit for the peace
treaty may have some effect in mitigating the wrath Of
the ~vociferous senator from Idaho.
II the senate fails TO ratify the Kellogg peace pact,
the United States will be in a very embarrassing posi-
tion. The United States. under the leadership Of
Woodrow Wilson, induced the other nations to join the
League Of Nations and then stayed out. We also as
sisted them in setting up the World Court, and then
refused to have anything 70 do with it, unless all ma
lions participating accepted the American reservations,
arrogatinr to ourselves the right to run il. European
diplomats we're very much Disguised with the Ame-i-
can attitude toward the League and the World Court
but that did not prevent them from accepting the oait
when Kellogg threw his peace pact into the interna-
tional diplomatic pond. With great avidity they grabbed
the bait. and IL the United states refuses for the third
time to accept what tbs country itself has proposed Tor
other nations. they will hereafter view with deep sus-
pieion anything Of a similar nature emanating from the
western side Of the Atlantic.
II is very clear that after the insistence Of Secre-
tsrv kellogg that the other nations aid 10 preserve the
apurity and simplicity Of the proposal, the united
States ought not to make reservations to the pact ~
Is true that the British government, in ITS eorrespon-
dence. has excluded certain regions" from the opera
tion of the pact, but the labor party has repudia'ed
tbis ro.itiou and has announced that II will do so IN
behalf Of the government itself in the next election u
Is probable that the majority Of the British people ar
rrepared 70 renounce war entirely as an instrument OF
r.tioral noIi,y. and 10 seek the settlement Of disputes
o,,v Nv reaceful means II permitted by their govern
men to do so. 80,
. P.I.,ivs IN the naval expansion plan Mr.. LIBBY
..;s. CT, would seem to require no subtle argument TO
.orv;rce any honest man that TO combine Inc fehuh-
.;.,ion Of war with an increase in our navy wouia
:. % be.ray lack Of faith in the declaration renounc-
;rv war. II the pact is to change nothing from what
would have happened without the pact, then the pact
amounts TO nothing. America can't be expected 20 scrap
bar navy as the immediate result of the pact but the
x.rid has the right to expect that America VIII not I'M
~sa;ateIv increase her navy. Reduction OF ornaments
,rdsr the pact will be gradual, but increase OF arme-
-sr,. ought 10 stop short with the signing q tne
r,rt Il the pact Is to be taken seriously.