Evening star., 1938-09-09
VOICE OF THE
PRESS
KELLOCC.BRIANDP
HELD FAILURE
10th Birthday Anniversary Reached
Amid Preparations for War Which
Menace World, Despite Hopes
That Were Aroused by
Agreement.

Ten years after the signing Of tho
Kellogg BRAND treaty to Danish war,
the world looks back over the decade
that passed and concludes that the birth
day anniversary brings only thoughts OF
the failure of an attempt to guarantee
peace among the nations.
THESE years have seen the danger Of
q general international conflict grow
even greater" says the Fort Worth star
Telegram. while the Canton (Ohio)
Repository observes that 1.-The nations
are too busy laying plans for the next
treaty for peace a happy birthday"
The decade" according to the Arkon
Beacon Journal, "has dimmed the luster
OF this pact but not the nobility Of its
example. Dictatorial and imperial aims
may have reduced 1t to shreds with
their undeclared wars Of aggression
against their neighbors. but in the heart
Of the worlds people the hope remains
that time will yet make 1t living
reality. Only in that approach to
covenanted peace will the nations be
saved from the pit that threatens their
civilization"
"The treaty was the nearest approach"
In the judgment of the New York Times
"ever made to a universal outlawry of
war; In a striking manner it expressed
the prevailing mood and the undimmed
hopes OF the world 10 years after the
armistice. In retrospect 1t looms as a
kind of climax of the international dec
ade. These reflections fall naturally into
the past tense because it is clear to every
one that the Kellogg pact is dead"
There was no very widespread dispo-
sition," recalls the Kalamazoo Gazette
to assume that the signing of the treaty
had given the world a permanent, infal-
lible guaranty of peace. But even those
who leaned toward the skeptical side did
share in the hope that something good
might result from this multilateral pledge
that the cause Of peace would be served
IN some measure"
Ten years after war was formally
renounced by governments representing
virtually three-fourths of the world pop
ulation," states the Chattanooga Times,
wars are being fought by governments
which describe them as unavoidable in
cidents.'" The Wilmington Del.) News
calls the anniversary "a melancholy oc-
casion,' and adds: 1T sees nations armed
on scale never before attempted. Men
are dying on battle fronts in Occident
and Orient. Great numbers elsewhere
wonder when they 60 to sleep at night
whether or not they shall hear the call
to arms in the morning"
1T seems rather futile" remarks the
Ann Arbor News. Ito say. Many happy
returns OF the day Instead, from the
great halls of the League of Nations in
Geneva we ought to quarry a suitable
tombstone and inscribe on 1t: Here lies
the BRAND Kellogg pact, mournfully
buried in the archives of the United
States Department of State; born of
mans will to progress. destroyed by his
acts OF retrogression
Every nation that signed" proclaims
the jackson (Mich) Citizen Patriot, "bv
its signature condemned ard renounced
war and pledged itself to use pacific
methods for settling disputes. All of
these provisions were specifically stated
IN the treaty as promulgated. Todav's
headlines and those of yesterday and the
day before, and those of last year, tell
the sad failure of the ten year old
treaty"