Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-07-22
SENATE,S o. K. IS EXPECTED
FOR TREATY AGAINST WAR
Secretary Kellogg Kept in Touch With
Upper Body During Negotiation
of Multilateral Pact.

idea of outlawing war, which lies at the
bottom of the Kellogg treaties
To the administration surprise, the
most violent opposition to the renunci-
alton OF war pactS has come from with
IN Its own camp and from an eminent
quarter of that camp. The New York
Heraid-Tribune, commonly regarded the
chief metropolitan mouthpiece of the
Coolidge regime. has assailed Secretary
Kellogg's war remuneration program
from the outset,
Expresses Vigorous Dissent.
The Herald Tribune, as lately as the
past few days, commenting on the f1na
success of Kellogg's diplomacy in in
ducing all IA of the principal powers tc
join in the multilateral arrangement
decried it and expressed the hope that
the Senate would refuse to ratify 1t. II
said:
we greatly admire the record of the
Coolidge administration and we strongly
approve its many sound and beneficent
accomplishments. But the Kellogg treaty
is certainly not one of them. The plan
is dangerous-and, worse still, it gives
official sanction to portentous mis-
conception. Badly stated, 1t is an
attempt to get something for nothing
Every child knows that this is impos-
sible, but the prolonged negotiations
have broadcast the impression that
something has been done to stop wal
when nothing has been done. The
treaty will probably be signed, but we
hope the Senate will refuse to ratify 1t
Its attempt to give something for moth
ing only intrencheS war more deeply
than ever. War fears truth and realism
nV.1xS 80, ~ aat
flee can end it. The Kellogg treaty
with its many textual dangers. only
thickenS the haze and deepens the pit
falls
From an influential Democratic quar-
ter - a quarter that might threaten
genuine hostility If there should be a
Smith administration and Smith Sem
ate in power in i929--there also comes
note of vigorous opposition. Franklin
D. Roosevelt, one of the big cogs in the
Al Smith machine, writing in the July
Foreign Affairs, says:
Called Misleading Step.
"Our Secretary of State is working on
glorified mutipowered declaration
solemnly resolving against war. He has
re-diScovered the Bryan treaties He
can do no direct harm by these efforts
But If he fails to do concrete good. he
may satisfy many fine aspirations with
something unreal 1t is of the utmost
Importance that this Nation realize that
war cannot be outlawed by resolution
alone. That has failed for 1000 years.
Since earliest history nations have
entered into treaties of eternal peace
and friendship Time after time SOL
emn agreements have been signed only
to fall under the heat of misunder-
standing or the desire for power. The
primary cause OF failure has been lack
of machinery for eliminating the causes
of disputes before they reach grave pro-
portions Mr. Kellogg's plan, even If
approved by the leading nations. still
fails in two points. 1t leads to false
belief In America that we have taken a
great step forward. 1t does not con-
tribute n any way TO settling matters
Of international controversy"
Kellogg's View Stated.
Secretary Kellogg doesn't think his
treaties are going to usher In the mil
lennium. Addressing the Council on
Foreign Relations in New York last
March, Kellogg said:
IT must not claim that treaties of ar
bitratiorl and cancellation. or even treat
les explicitly renouncing war as an In
strliment Of national policy. afford q
certain guaranty against those conflicts
which have periodically broken out be-