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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Italy. Mountainous Atlantic seas crashing against the Spanish coast and the Bay of Biscay sent subterranean jolts across Europe, down the backbone of Italy to waggle seismograph needles in the Catholic Observatory in Florence. In Sicily, Mount Etna sputtered in mild eruption.
As a gentle overture to January's five power naval conference, the British Foreign Office issued a "White Paper" last week.* Bearing the signature of Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Arthur Henderson, it was strongly reminiscent of the quixotic reasoning of James Ramsay MacDonald in his more elfin moments...
"The whole situation has been built up on the assumption that there is nothing illegitimate in the use of war as an instrument of national policy, and as a necessary corollary that position and the rights of neutrals are entirely independent of the circumstances of any war which may be...
"This assumption is no longer valid as regards states which are members of the League of Nations and parties to the Kellogg Pact. . . . In other words, as between members of the League there can be no neutral rights, because there can be no neutrals."
"If the British interpretation of the Kellogg Pact means that henceforth there shall be no neutrals," he boomed portentously, "it necessarily follows that we and all the other signatories become belligerents. Under these circumstances the pact is misnamed. It is not a peace pact. It is a war pact."