Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-05
Says He Views Efforts of
Powers to Bring HostiIi-
ties to Halt as Being Sue
CeSSfuI.
LITVIN0FF, SARCASTIC,
SCORES INTERFERENCE
Attention to Activities in South
America, Warships in Chinese
Waters and Armies in Colonial
Countries Rather Than to Affairs
in Orient Suggested.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Secretary StimSon said today
that further action so far as the
United States was concerned III
the Chinese Soviet situation in
Manchuria had been closed with
his public reply to Soviet allega-
tionS of unfriendliness in the Sec
retary's move for peace.
Stimson said he viewed the
efforts by the major powers under
the leadership of the United
States to bring about a cessation
of hoStilities as successful.
The Secretary commented favorably
OH a report of the official Soviet agency
TaSs, which promptly published the re-
suits of the protocol signed between
the two countries for adjustment of
their dispute. He asserted the Soviet
agency had touched upon the center
OF the quarrel and he said such publi-
cation of both sides of the dispute had
indicated long step forward in bet
tering the whole situation.
First Sign of Agreement.
This was the first indication, he
added, that the American Government
had received that the two nations had
been able to meet together and had
been able to reach an agreement
In taking his steps to bring about
peace in Manchuria through appeals
to the Soviet and China, Stimson said
he had in mind the situation which
existed previous to the outbreak of the
World War. At that time, he added,
world public opinion had been voiceless
and the only efforts made had been
those through diplomatic channels with
no opportunity for the peoples of the
various countries to voice their opposi-
ton to an outbreak of war.
Secretary Stimson said Americas ef-
fort to restrain Russia and China from
open and avowed warfare was prompted
by an Interpretation of the Kellogg
peace treaty which gives any signatory
nation the right to remind other coun-
tries of their commitments under that
pact and not by unfriendlineSs toward
the Soviet as charged by the Moscow
government
treaty had profoundly modified the at
titude of the world toward peace, Mr..
StimSon pointed to diplomatic prece-
dents which he construed as author
izing the American memorandumS. AS
far back as The Hague convention of
1899, he said, the nations of the world
agreed that strangers to a dispute could
make suggestions for peace on their
own initiative.
Conference Held With Press.
The cabinet officers remarks were
made at a conference with Washington
IN ho
mitted formally to Moscow. Mr.. Slim
son had seen only press dispatches OF
the text OF the Russian memorandum,
which today was still in process of
transmission, with France as an inter-
mediary.
Nevertheless, his words were quick to
reach officials in Moscow through news
paper channels and dispatches from the
Russian capital told of an amplifica-
ton and reiteration of the Soviet atti-
tude by Maxim Litvinoff, acting COM
misSar of foreign affairs.
Addressing a session of the central
executive committee of the Soviet the
commiSsar repeated his declaration that
the American action had constituted an
unjuStifiable interference and asserted
that instead of setting themselves up as
protectors OF the Kellogg pact" the
powers aff1liated in the peace move had
their own neighborhoods.
In view of the modification of the
world attitude toward peace which
came with the Kellogg treaty, Secretary
StimSon said, the United States intends
to shape its policy accordingly. He
pointed to the join declaration of Pres
ident Hoover and Prime Minister Ram
say Macdonald, which proceeded from
their conferences here, and called atten-
ton to the passage which said both our
governments resolved to accept the peace
pact not only as a declaration of good
intentions, but as a positive obligation
TO direct national policy in accordance
with its pledge"
Mr.. Stimson reiterated his faith in
united world opinion as a restraining
influence upon disputant nations, and as
evidence of its force spoke of the nego-
tlations which have now been instituted
between Russia and China.
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