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...path of a United States of Europe is the existence of a regularly centralized, modern state in continental Europe today," said W. L. Langer '15, assistant professor in the department of History, when asked to comment on the consolidation of the states of Europe as proposed by Premier Briand. "The plan may have a beautiful ideal, but it seems to me to be utterly impracticable. There are too many obstructions that must be ironed out before anything can be done...
Hoover -MacDonald Declaration: "Both our Governments resolve to accept the [Kellogg-Briand] Peace Pact not only as a declaration of good intentions, but as a positive obligation. . . . Therefore, in a new and reinforced sense the two governments not only declare that war between them is unthinkable, but that distrusts and suspicions arising from doubts and fears which may have been justified before the Peace Pact must now cease to influence national policy...
...Under the second article of the Peace Pact (Kellog-Briand Treaty) the United States pledged itself 'never under any circumstances whatsoever to seek the settlement of any dispute from whatsoever causes arising by other than pacific means.' This definitely makes the obligation to keep peace just as much a part of the law of the United States as it is of the law of the world and West Point is therefore an out in wed, illegal anti-social institution...
...Briand, typifies the cartoonist's Frenchman. Yet Gustav Stresemann was the first German to be entertained officially in France for 59 years. Said the semi-official Temps last week...
...entrance into the League-a record that won him the Nobel Peace prize in 1926 and which he topped off with the enthusiastic signing of the Kellogg anti-war pact. This exhausting series of international conferences brought him the warm personal friendship of French Foreign Minister Aristide Briand, now Prime Minister of France. For five years Stresemann and Briand made a team that worked constantly, effectively for pan-European goodwill. Told of the death of his ruddy-faced teammate, rheumy Prime Minister Briand seemed heartbroken last week. Quickly he sent official messages of condolence to the German Embassy in Paris...