"People of Good Will"

When nations make a treaty, most of their citizens take it for granted that that is that; that the proper state authorities will thereafter see to it that the treaty is recorded, remembered, honored, enforced --or abrogated if necessity impels. Not so lightly do 186 British and U. S. ministers and educators regard the so-called Kellogg Treaty lately solemnized in Paris between the U. S., Britain and 13 other nations, renouncing war. The 186, deeming this a super-treaty worthy of super-ratification, signed and last week issued a super-pledge called a "British-American Message to the Churches and to All People of Good Will." They said they accepted the Kellogg Treaty "in spirit and in fact" and would "discountenance any and all expressions or acts which contemplate as possible the use of any but pacific means for the settlement of disputes or conflicts, etc., etc." Super-pledge was longer than super-treaty. The World Alliance for International Friendship Through the Churches was the name under which the 186 signatories placed themselves. Among U. S. signatories were such notables as Bishop James Cannon Jr., Dr. Samuel Parkes Cadman, Bishop James Edward Freeman, Dean William Scarlett. Among famed Britishers were Rabbi Joseph Herman Hertz, Dean William Ralph Inge, Bishop Arthur Foley Winnington Ingram, Randall Thomas Baron Davidson, onetime Archbishop of Canterbury. Among famed U. S. Churchmen who did not sign were such men as Dr. Henry Sloane Coffin, Bishop William Thomas Manning. The outstanding British absentee was Most Rev. Cosmo Gordon Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury, Primate of All England.