If the Peace Pact seems to have made little general
advance in the last few days, the reason does not lie in antipathy, but in the feeling that all are agreed on the essential and so " it will go on all right." On Saturday a Note was delivered at the Foreign Office in which Mr. Kellogg offers a new draft of the Treaty, in which the proposed contracting Powers include India, our Dominions and those signatories of the Locarno Treaties who were not included before. There is also inserted in the preamble a clause stating that a country that seeks " to promote its national interests by resort to war should be denied the benefits furnished by this Treaty." That proves that Mr. Kellogg is ready to meet perfectly reasonably what he considers reasonable in the Notes that he has received from Europe. Our only fear in the whole matter is lest (possibly through unintentional clumsiness on this side) the United States should mis- understand the so-called reservations made over here, and not see that they are meant to be explanatory of conditions here rather than to raise any objection what- ever to the essential aims on which we are all agreed.
