Cordial British Reply to Mr. Kellogg's Proposals for the Outlawry of War: Position of the Dominions London, May 19. it Austen Chamberlain's reply accepting Mr, Kellogg's proposals for the outlawry of war was handed today to the United States Am-
The reply lays stress on the inability of lajesty's. Government to agree to any new treaty which would weaken or undermine the Covenant' of the League of Nations or the Treaty of Locarno, fon which, says the Foreign Seeretary, the peace of Europe rests.
retary Kellogg, however, made it clear that he had. no intention by the terms of the new treaty of Preventing parties to the League. Covenants or the Locarno pacts from falling their obligations.
'Sir Austen points out that there are certain regions in the world the welfare and integrity of which constitute special and vital, interest for British pence and satd His Majesty's Government, he say' have been at pains in the past to make it clear that interference in these regions cannot be suffered. Their protection against attack is to the British Empire a measure of self-defence. It must be. clearly understood, adds the Note, that His Majesty's. Government accept the new treaty on the distinct under standing that it does not prejudice their freedom of action in this Hearty Ca-operation reply states that His Majesty's Government find nothing in their existing commitments which prevents their hearty ce-operation 4in this new movement for strengthening the foundations of peace. They will gladly ce-operate in the conclusion of the proposed pact. It] will be appreciated, says Sir Austen, that the nature of the pact is such that His Majesty's Government in Britain could not participate other than jointly and simultaneously with the greater definiteness to Mr. Kellogg's idea, The. "Observer," which approves of the British Note, thinks that} there should be no difficulty in reconciling the proposals with the Covenant of the League of Nations and the Locarno policy. The real crux of the matter, it declares, would be to solve the position in regard to the "justifiable nervous-hess of the part of France which has led her to conclude agreements and and the Little Entente,
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