The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-27

The so-caled Kellogg Pact, more correctly said
the reciprocal agreement on the outlawing of war
as weapon of national policy has occupied the
centre of general attention since December last.
During this period there has taken place lively
exchange of opinion between the Powers regarding
the drawing up of this pact nevertheless they did
not think of inviting the Soviet Union, to take
part in these discussions. Obviously the govern
ments conducting and taking part in these nego-
tiations must have in mind the question of invit-
ing the Soviet Union to participate, and from their
standpoint they have adequate for re-
framing from doing
This circumstance only to emphasize
the real object of the conclusion of the so-called
Kellogg Pact.
Weapon Against U. S. S. R.
The exclusion of the Soviet government from
these negotiations leads in the first place to
the assumption that among the real objects of
the intiators of this pact there obviously and
is the endeavor to make of this pact weapon for
isloating and fighting against the Soviet Union.
The negotiations regarding the conclusion of the
Kellogg pact are obviously integral part of the
policy of encircling the Soviet Union which at this
moment occupies the central point of the nterna-
tional relations of the whole world would remind
you that delegate Comrade Litvnov on his
return from the December meeting of the Pre-
paratory Commission on Disarmament, gave in
his report short analysis of the Kellogg pro-
posas regarding the conclusions of pact and
ably showed that the "outlawing of war as
weapon of national policy" is synonymous with
preparing war as a weapon of international coun-
ter-revolution.
The real purpose of the Kellogg Pact is shown
yet plainly by the French reservations sub
mitted to the American government in the Note Of
June %, when sending the second editing of the
Pact to the ntiatory Powers. The American gov
ernment had pointed out that the second editing
had the object of giving expression to the French
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government emphasized in a still more undisguised
manner that the Kellogg Pact aimed at protecting
the international relations which laid down in
treaties, which idea also expressed, although
in a less outspoken form, by the American gov
ernment when sending the second editing of the
Pact.
The French government sets up war aimed at
the carrying out of national policy, against war
which is to perpetuate the existing relations laid
down in treaties, of the interested nations. Accord
ing to the view of the French government, in the
first the government in question acts of ITSELF
Independently of the existing relations to other
states. The second would mean that states
would conduct to secure the existing rea-
tions laid down in treaties. For this very
the treaties France has with Poland and Rumana
belong to the totality of the general system of
present day treaty relations, so that arising
out of these treaties would not be a
weapon of national policy, but war to perpetuate
the existing peaceful and friendly relations be-
tween the signatories of the Pact.
War Against Soviet Union.
When the American government, when sending
the second editing of the Kellogg pact to the
nitatory powers June 23 pointed out that this
SECOND editing realized the French demands it
not attempting to deceive The Pact actually
states that the states participating in .he agree
ment renounce national polig In order
to perpetuate the existing peaceful and friendly
relations between their peoples. In it's accompany
ing Note of June %, the American goNernment de-
clares in detail that the Statute of the League of
Nations. as also the Locarno agreerent and the