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...Britain, France, Germany and Italy declared that, as signatories to the Briand-Kellogg Pact "renouncing war as an instrument of national policy," they are ready to sign with other European states a stronger pact renouncing "recourse to force" in settling European disputes...
...John is seldom candid, but he was understood to think that if Japan had "renounced force" (instead of merely "renouncing war as an instrument of national policy" under the Kellogg-Briand Pact), something could have been done about the undeclared war during which Japan bombarded Shanghai while shooting up Manchuria...
...Briand is dead. In Geneva last week Maître Paul-Boncour, now Minister of War, was the French No. 1. With great finesse he divulged to the Disarmament Conference Bureau somewhat more-but not too much-of the new French Disarmament plan (TIME, Nov. 7). Still tentative, the plan will be shaped into its final form partly on the basis of European reactions to the Paul-Boncour speech, partly in an effort to please the next U. S. President. Last week the great French lawyer orated extempore for more than an hour, several times referred unmistakably to Germany without...
...that he who wages war shall be deprived of the economic aid without which adventures of this kind could get nowhere in the modern world. It is necessary at the same time that it be known in advance that any result territorially or otherwise obtained by violation of the Briand-Kellogg pact will not be recognized by the body of civilized nations." Accordingly, continued Maňtre Paul-Boncour, the "first circle" would be a World Treaty by which all nations would pledge themselves to act (instead of merely talking) in the spirit of the Briand-Kellogg Pact. The "second...
Since Europe's next war is apt to be fought over the Polish Corridor, it was bad news for Europe when M. August Zaleski, "The Briand of the North," resigned last week as Foreign Minister of Poland. Tall, big-boned and pallid because of a plugged artery, Peace Man Zaleski has sat more often than any other statesman on the Council of the League of Nations. Insiders call him the real author of the Briand-Kellogg Peace Pact. In the past two years he has immeasurably bettered relations between Warsaw and Moscow, obtained the signing of a Russo-Polish...