Salt Lake Telegram | 1928-09-13 | Page 3 | Russ-American Status Problem of Antiwar Pact

V RUSS RUSS I AN V STATUS PROBLEM V. V V Of PACT rACi iV V WASHINGTON ASHINGTON W Sept 13 AP- AP Just how American Russo-American relations would be affected by formal ratification I cation of the Kellogg Kellogg-B Briand antiwar anti anti- V war treaty Is a q question estion constantly bobbing uP In discussions discussion ot of the tho V pact and one that evidently will bo be raised when the tho covenant is placed laced before the sc senate te 1 V the stipulations made by Great Britain and France Fr prior t to their approval ot of the treaty seem scent due for a general threshing out on the basIs of whether or not they In themselves constitute reservations I I the pact be ratified without with with- out nut qualification an official docu- docu V meat ment ot of soviet Russia would be deposited deposited de- de posited for the first time In the i V state department V VI Chairman Borah tf the senate V. V f reign relations committee held helda a conference yesterday with Secretary Kellogg He Is In favor of the treaty and long has been a n nt of Russian recognition After V Ills hIs discussion with Kellogg ho he do- do that his views were vere un- un and although he declined to be drawn Out ut with respect to the V effect of the treaty on recognition V of the soviet government ho he did say that he was very well satisfied with the present situation He expressed the opinion that the treaty would be ratified without reservation NOT RECOGNITION The state department holds that recognition of soviet Russia will be involved In no way in American V ratification l ot of the treaty DepositIng Deposit Deposit- i Ing g the Russian governments government's inV instrument in- in V strument of adherence in Washing Washing- Washington t ton n it views as a mechanical detent detail t r I It has been poInted out that 1 reservation was sas attached by the V United States to the international sanitary convention of which soviet V Russia also is a signatory which that the Washington gov- gov V V did not thereby recognize V V ta a regime or entity acting as a a. gov- gov V Of a or adhering V power when vlen that regime or entity I 1 not recognized by the United states tates as the of V th that t V wei V It j has ceen suggested tl that at V such r reservation be attached V to the peace treaty but not V yet ct been incorporated in a definite l proposal Senator Bor Borah h declared that the V French and British stipulations could not be construed as affecting the treaty Itself and added that the I s senate nate was called upon to consider only the content matter of the doc doc- V V NO RESERVATIONS RESERVATIONS' There are no reservations he heV V said V V Fourteen nations remained today to respond to the invitation o ot the Unit d. d States far V ence ThOV Tho approval of t China and Spain was received yesterday bringing tho total of the of-the the states in the treaty to thirty fIve V V addition to the fifteen powers which became original signatories at atE Pari last i 5 V V