Evening star., 1938-08-28
HULL MAKES PLEA
FOR KELLOCCPACT
Calls for Observance of
Treaty on Its Tenth
Anniversary.

Secretary of State Hull yesterday
noted the 10th anniversary of the sign
ing OF the Kellogg BRAND pact for the
remuneration of war as an instrument
of national policy with the declaration
that "on the observance or non-
observance of the solemn pledges made
10 years ago depends the preservation
of all that is valuable and worth while
In the life of each and every nation" J"
The Secretary of State pointed out
that chief among those pledges was
that the settlement or solution of
all disputes or conflicts should never
be sought except by pacific means -
The treaty was signed, while 1000
watched, in the French foreign Office in
Paris, August 81, 1923, by representa-
fives of the United States, Italy,
Japan. Germany Belgium, the British
Commonwealth of Nations Poland and
Czechoslovakia. BY now the pledge
has been assumed by SO nations.
1T is the great tragedy of today
that although modern experience has
demonstrated that not even a victor
can gain from war; nevertheless, in
certain parts of the world, strife and
conflict are bringing untold misery to
millions, and in other parts the idea
of warfare is being actually glorified,"
Mr. Hull said in preface to his plea
that the world now hold to the spirit
of the pact.
Much of this strife is in the "un-
declared war'-an offspring Of the
pact outlawing war
Talks Are Broadcast.
An International broadcast of talks
by Laurence Duggan. chief of the
division of American Republics, State
Department.; Minister Luis Fernando
Guachalla of Bolivia and Pablo M
1nsfran, Charge dAffaires of the Para
guayan Legation here, marked the an
nlversary observance arranged by the
Peoples Mandate Committee, which
devotes itself to the outlawry Of war
in the New World
. The broadcast marked also the
signing on July 81 of the treaty of
peace. friendship and boundaries by
Paraguay and Bolivia, ending the long
dispute over the Chaco region. This
treaty. the speakers said, demonstrates
the effectiveness of peaceful means of
settling disputes in accordance with
the principles of the Kellogg pact.
1t would be difficult to cite any one
event of greater significance in inter-
American relations today than the
pacific settlement of the Chaco dis
pute." Mr.. Duggan said "One of the
potentially most serious problems OF
the Americas has ceased to threaten
the gathering momentum for real CO.
operation and friendly relations among
the American republics"
Chaco Peace Praised.
=. The Bolivian Minister said 1.-THE
whole continent has rejoiced in the
event (the treaty signing, praising
1t as a major triumph of diplomacy
and international negotiation" The
Paraguayan Charge d'Affaires re-
marked:
If the world would profit by use
Al experience, there is at hand the
example of Paraguay and Bolivia to
snow that peaceful negotiation are
considerably more fruitful than the
use OF violence in the settlement of in
ternational disputes
The broadcast went over the blue
network of the National Broadcasting
Co, in this country and was sent BY
short wave to Latin America. Miss
Mabel Vernon, director OF the People 8
Mandate Committee. introduced the
speaker, and DR.. Esther Brooks of
Goucher College. Baltimore, read
translations into English of the Span
ssh speeches of the South American
diplomats
The Kellogg pact is named for
Frank Kellogg, Secretary of State un-
der President Coolidge. He signed
the treaty with a gold pen presented
to him by the city Of LIE Havre, France.
President Coolidge sent a message to
President Doumergue of France that
the treaty constituted "a great forward
step in the preservation of peaceful
relations between the nations and
therefore will, I know, prove to be an
historic document in the history of