Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-06
BRITAIN ADVOCATES
COVENANT REVISION
TO END ALL WARS
Henderson Offers Resolution
to Make League as Strong
as Kellogg Pact.
DELEGATES APPLAUD
GERMANY'S SUPPORT
Moves for Treaty to Provide
Financial Aid for Victims
of Aggression.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
GENEVA, September 6.-The cove
nant of the League of Nations, inspired
by Woodrow Wilson, has already been
found lacking in effective means to pre-
vent war by the statesmen taking part
in the Leagues tenth Assembly ses-
sion.
Taking bold and progressive step to
make the covenant at least as strong
as the Kellogg remuneration of war pact,
the British Labor government today in
troduced resolution into the Assem-
bly, calling for revision of the League
covenant so that henceforth war may
be really vanished, ss under the Kellogg
pact.
The resolution was introduced by
Foreign Secretary Arthur Henderson of
Great Britain and was made in behalf
also Of France, Italy, Belgium, Chile and
Denmark.
Delegates Applaud Resolution.
Great applause broke forth from dele
gates and auditors when Mr.. Henderson,
in resonant tones which carried to the
remoteSt corners Of the hall, announced
that the British resolution also had the
support Of the German delegation.
The resolution says that the tenth
Assembly of the League of Nations
notes with satisfaction the general ad-
herence of states which are members of
the League to the Paris pact, devised by
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Premier BRAND, which imposes on its
signatories the renunciation of war as
an instrument of national policy.
It considers that the Assembly should
take account of the progress thus made
and deems it desirable to examine arti-
cleS IL and IS of the covenant to de-
termine whether it Is necessary to make
notifications in them.
Mr.. Henderson emphasized the fact
that the League covenant was drawn up
on the morrow of the great war and
that its authors had been bound by the
will Of the governments of that day, but
that now the Kellogg pact, which re-
nounces all war, had changed every
thing.
Gaps existed in the covenant which
make possible recourse to war. when
there is no unanimity among the 'mem-
berS Of the Council as to which of the
dtsputtng nations Is the aggresSor and
when the nations themselves refuse to
abide by the decision Of the Council.
Pact Beyond Covenant.
Therefore, under the covenant, the
right to conduct private war remains
legitimate, though under the Kellogg
pact this right has been abolished" he
said. THE pact has gone beyond the
covenant and it is our duty to render
the covenant as strong as the pact"
The British foreign secretary again
won applause when he came out in
strong advocacy of a general treaty
which would provide financial assistance
to any state becoming a victim of ag-
greSSion and when he proclaimed that
If this treaty should see the light of
day the British government would sign
1t Immediately.
He wanted this treaty to be open to
all countries, whether or not they were
members Of the League, thus including
such nations as the United States and
Soviet Russia.
He also advocated giving increased
powers to the League council under ar
ticle II Of the covenant, so that the
council might deal more effectively with
any international crisis which raised
the specter Of war.
''Cut Out Dead Wood"
He urged his auditors ITO cut out the
dead wood from the covenant"
Mr.. Henderson made only brief allu-
sion to the Anglo-American naval con-
versations conducted by Premier Ram
say Macdonald and Ambassador Dawes
in England.
He said It was useless for the League
Preparatory Disarmament Commission
to go on meeting until some assurance
OF practical results had been given, and
urged all the nations concerned to con-
tribute their bit to a general disarma-
ment agreement.
Eloquently he drew a picture of the
horrors Of any future wars, quoting
Marshal Foch's statement that the mill
tary mind always believed the next war
would be like the last war, but that he
(Foch) believed that 1t never had been
and never would be-.
I'VE must limit warshipS, armies.
tanks, guns, aircraft and poison gas,
which will destroy our children and our
children's children II we allow another
war to break out" exclaimed Mr.. Hen
derson.
Let us therefore press forward with
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