Word: briand
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...romantic and unpractical. The report correctly points out that nations spend $450 billion a year on arms but only $20 billion annually on official development aid. But Brandt's suggested tax on the export of war materiel is likely to be as quickly forgotten as the 1928 Kellogg-Briand treaty outlawing all wars. The commission rightly points out the past weakness of United Nations organizations in dealing with North-South problems but then proposes a new U.N. agency that would coordinate all the other bodies. This unfortunately would result in another set of well-paid international civil servants jetting...