Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-21

| Peace policies again come to the front
in the growing vigor of discussion ir
and out of Congress over the resolution
offered by Senator Capper providing
for an embargo in the discretion of the
President on the sale Of war material
% a nation which, under the terms
of the kellogg treaty, may be the ag-
gressor in a conflict. It is expected
that the resolution will come up at the
extra session.
"A step in the right direction" Is
the verdict also of the Buffalo Evening
News Republican,, which argues on the
assumption that other nations might fol-
low suit: 1.-THE Capper resolution would
implement the Kellogg pact-would give
it seth. From such a commitment the
signatory powers might move on to a
remuneration of preparations for war
Then, and not until then, will the i'm
plications of the Kellogg pact be recog-
nized when the nations frame their
budgets" The Dallas Journal (inde-
pendent Democratic) thinks "such an
embargo would prove more effective
than any other implement that might
be employed to prevent war, short of
a total scrapping of the worlds armies
and navies."
Noting that the resolution "borrows
a principle of the League of Nations, II
and that Senator Capper is "a good Re-
publican" the st. Joseph News-Press
independently continues: 1T is enough
that men like Senator Capper are NOV
ing IN the direction of practicable meas
ures to make Sclear the intentions of
this country in the matter of opposing
all aggressive war" The Duluth Herald
independent Republican, calls the
measure natural and logical sequence
TO the Kellogg treaty and afirms that
only the possible profit in selling to a
criminal nation the implements to prac-
tice its crime stands in the way of the
unanimous adoption Of the Capper reso-
luton"
r + X y
"It would make the Kellogg Ntreatv
more than a simple declaration of be-
nevolent design" says the BROOKLYN
Daily Eagle independently. 1T ought
10 be adopted by Congress. But it will
not be adopted unless that public senti-
ment which sincerely believes in peace
can be rallied to its support. For its
path in Congress Is beset by infinitely
more difficulties than confronted the
kellogg treaty" The Olean Herald Gin
dependent) emphasizes the conten-
ton that cit makes 1t possible for this
great Nation to throw its material as
well as its moral influence on the side
OF peace when peace is wantonly
threatened"
Comment by the New York World
independently refers to opposition from
the Chicago Tribune CRepublican), and
replies: THE Tribune. as spokesman
for the old 'irreconcilables,' hastens to
expound what may be called the plot
theory of the Capper resolution. An
article pronounces 1t the work of the
'pro-leaguers.' They did not press their
views in the Senate debate, according
to the Tribune, for they feared this
would defeat the Kellogg pact. But
now with the ink on the pact scarcely
dry they unnask their plan.
This naive view overlooks, we believe.
the entire history of Senator Capper's
idea. Far from being sprung suddenly
on any one, it was contained In his
conception OF the Kellogg pact from the
beginning. An aggressor nation
would be self-convicted by its failure to
seek the agencies of peace, and the
other signatory nations would refuse
aid to 1t, even TO the extent of declin-
ing to protect their ships or sailors or
other agents furnishing it supplies.
The Capper plan, in its general
outlines, has been In view from the
beginning.
"The Tremendous responsibility OF