22 DECEMBER 1928, Page 2

On Tuesday the Foreign Relations Committee of the United States

Senate decided by fourteen votes to two to report the Kellogg Pact favourably for ratification. When we write it is believed that the Pact will be ratified without reservation, though it is possible that a resolu- tion will be passed calling attention to the Monroe Doctrine. The friends of the Pact and the friends of the Cruiser Bill are still struggling for precedence in their rather contradictory interests.

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