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...about to smash the Conference. By so doing he would incur for Japan the supreme risk that her defiance might stir up the Great Powers to do something at last to check the onslaught Japan launched in 1931 when she thumbed her short nose at the Briand-Kellogg Pact, made war her national policy and, withdrawing from the League of Nations in 1933, continued to advance upon China in a predatory campaign still highly successful. Perhaps there was no real risk of the tabby cat powers doing anything, but whatever the risk Admiral Nagano was resolved to run it. First...
...Hugo, Clemenceau, Poincaire & Doumergue. As a Republican I denounce your Croix de Feu & all other parties of the Right. France has soldiers, mobile guards&policemen & needs no other private armies. I denounce equally the Communists whose ideal Russia, outdoes Capitalism. And I scorn such men as Remain Holland & Aristide Briand, who being the sole internationalists & brothers of men are blinded by their ideals & allow the enemies of their country to gain solid benefits, at her expense & safety, under the guise of this same internationalism. But you of the right, composed of L'Action Française the clerics...
Since the Great War, recalled M. Tardieu, nearly every French Premier from Briand and Herriot to himself, sought to persuade the Great Powers to bind themselves to back the League with an organized and rational machinery of Sanctions. "In 1924 the efforts of Herriot were foiled by the British and so eight years later were my own," declared André Tardieu. "During the Manchurian troubles Sir John Simon, as British Foreign Secretary, declared that under no pretext would His Majesty's Government permit their country to be drawn into a conflict...
...York Times is loudest in editorially deploring the "honest broking" of the French Premier, P. J. Philip, its longtime Paris man, felt obliged to radio: "Even in France, which has had a long succession of astute statesmen and politicians from the days of Richelieu and Mazarin to Thiers and Briand, Pierre Laval seems likely, on the present showing, to have a niche to himself...
Announcing his adherence to the Oath Bill, Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology, last night released photostatic copies of his sworn oath which revealed elaborate reservations. Mather added affirmation of his allegiance to the Kellogg-Briand Peace Pact, and to the Declaration of Independence, which, like the act states the right of peoples to alter their form of government...