The Archive · 1928

Mixed Press Reception

London, Aug. 28. reception is.given the Kellogg Pact by the Continental press.

"A good seed that ought' to produce. good fruit" is the comment of the Parisian newspaper "L'Homme Libre."

"Lo Matin" points out that it the first peace treaty concluded in the history of the world without a war immediately preceding it. newspapers, according to a despot from Reuter's correspondent Warsaw, are especially gratified, because they claim that the Pact a now signed is similar to the propos submitted by the Polish delegate at Geneva last year, and in signing it Germany forswears forever any idea of forcibly rearranging her Eastern frontier, On the other hand the Italian and German press are cynical and sar castle.

The Rome Tribuna" expresses the opinion that the Pact "will not for long llumine the pages of and adds that the res however would ceremony in Paris, and bitter suspicion under a cloak of fine words. The Peace Pact will further consolidate America's aloof. ness from the League of Nations." banished for half an early like Hollywood" fare some of the ironical headings appearing in the German Nationalist ress. Their comments are couched in a similar tone of mistrust and sarcasm, Particular emphasis is laid on the fact that there is no sign of general disarmament after the ceremony at Paris, nor of British and French troops evacuating Ger man territory. The "Left" journals on the other hand stress the moral importance and significance of the signing of the Pact, which they state will greatly increase the chance of the continuance of peace,

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