12 MAY 1928, Page 2

General Smuts spoke the whole truth at Cape Town on

Monday when he said that the Kellogg proposal offered a new opportunity to correct the balance of the world. The League had been left lopsided by the abstention of the United States. " But there are millions in America to-day who realize profoundly that they are co-responsible for the affairs of the world, and who feel in their heart of hearts that the League cannot be left to struggle for peace unaided by American brains and enthusiasm." The more we reflect upon the Kellogg proposal the more we like it. Its effect is positive, not negative; it enshrines peace as a practicable ideal instead of losing itself in details about the various methods of maintaining peace by the application of modified war.

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