Kellogg pact has attention of diplomats

LONDON, Aug. 10, 1928 (UP) -- Secretary of State Kellogg's anti-war pact and the recently announced secret Anglo-French naval agreement continued today to be the most discussed diplomatic moves in which Europe has been involved for some time.

Unlike the usual diplomatic agreement which receives considerable attention throughout the various countries for a few days or a week and then becomes little more than a matter of memory, these two moves are still attracting great interest both here and on the continent.

The mere fact that the important liberal newspaper, the Daily News published a report this morning that the Kellogg Pack would indirectly result in an immediate possibility of the complete abandonment of the proposed gigantic British naval base at Singapore, which already is under construction, has attracted great interest despite emphatic official denials by the British admiralty that there was any basis of fact in the report.

Reports from Geneva that the Kellogg Pact would be brought before the League assembly at its September meeting for active discussion with the possibility that it would open the way for the pact to become universally accepted by all nations received a welcome echo in liberal circles here which so far have steadfastly supported the proposed pact.

It can well be said that the eyes of Europe have never been turned toward an event with such interest since the signing of the famous Locarno Pact several years ago than they are now toward the twenty-seventh of this month when the delegates sign the two copies of the treaty for the outlawry of war, one copy to be placed on file in the Quai D'Orsay beside the Versailles Treaty and many other treaties dating since the American Revolution, and the other to be filed in the State Department in Washington.

A movement for a second ceremony to be held in Paris, at which other nations would be invited to sign, already is on foot. No definite arrangements for this ceremony have been made as yet, however.