PARIS, Aug. 23, 1928 (UP) - Simplicity and brevity will mark the signing of the Kellogg anti-war pact here Monday.
Speechmaking will be limited to Secretary Kellogg and Foreign Minister Aristide Briand, unless Foreign Minister Stresemann, representing Germany, requests that he be permitted to speak. He will be the first to sign.
Broadcasting and talking movies have been barred, although it is known that several firms applied for permission to make "talkies" of the ceremonies. Space has been provided for more than fifty cameras and four cinema photographers who will record the event for general world-wide distribution.
Those of ambassadorial rank probably will wear the conventional gold-braid and plumed hats, but there will be but few of those present who will be entitled to wear plenipotentiary dress. Others will wear morning dress of cut-away coats and striped trousers.
Premier Poincare will sit with other members of the French government in a special diplomatic box between President Cosgrave of the Free Irish State and American Ambassador Myron T. Herrick.
Poincare's announcement that the 1929 budget for France will not include any tax cuts, beyond some income tax concessions, is seen here to indicate that signing the pact will not mean any immediate reduction in French armaments, nor that the pact will bear any weight in the mapping out of France's program on armaments.
As far as the Chamber of Deputies is concerned - and it must be remembered that the chamber must ratify the pact - the signing will mean only another stepping stone toward world peace and will have little influence on the voting for army, navy and air force funds.
The French Foreign Office denied yesterday that it has been in touch with Secretary Kellogg on the question of a future meeting of other nations to sign the pact. Fifteen nations will sign Monday.
