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...wrote: "Recent events . . . have tended to bring home the vital importance of the faithful observance of the covenants. . . . Regardless of cause or responsibility a situation has developed which cannot under any circumstances be reconciled with the obligations of these two treaties [i. e. Nine-Power and Kellogg-Briand]. If the treaties had been faithfully observed such a situation could not have arisen." But in Statesman Stimson's argument lay larger undertones than the Nine-Power Treaty. Rehearsing the fact that the Washington Conference also produced the pact which limited capital ships to a 5-5-3 ratio and kept...
...done in the case of Japan without the concurrence of the United States; nor will any steps be taken toward it without assurance that, if taken, this country will concur. The United States is not a member of the League, but it is a party to the Kellogg-Briand pact of Paris, and there can be no doubt that Japan, contrary to that pact, has sought to settle a dispute by other than pacific means...
...broadcast over European lines rather than over American. The Government of the United States has put plainly on record its disapproval of what is in reality an aggressive war on China by Japan. It has founded its objection to this aggressive proceeding on the moral force of the Kellogg-Briand Pact and on the Nine-Power Treaty of 1922. Dr. Lowell freely admits that any action which the United States may take or may join in with other Powers is based not on the Covenant of the League of Nations but on these two agreements, to which we have adhered...
...Friday, March 4, as group which will act as a model Council will hold a session before the entire assemblage of delegates. Arrangements are, being made for the broadcasting of this feature, at which a member of the Harvard delegation (as Aristide Briand of France) will preside...
Having resigned his office as France's Foreign Minister Aristide Briand went for a few days' rest to his summer home at Cocherel, near St. Germain. "But it is too damp and cold there for me to stay, now that I am at liberty to go elsewhere," he said. "I shall buy a little boat . . . and go sailing in the sunshine on the blue Mediterranean Sea." Friends of Brer Briand noted a marked improvement in his health and spirits...