Word: instrument
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...generous cooperation of Professor Salvemini has placed at the disposal of the History department a potent instrument for the further liberation of College courses from the somewhat solitary confinement characteristic in the past. His intimate personal contact with the actualities of his field fits him peculiarly for his part in the present effort towards a pedagogical method which transcends the restrictions of an artificial unity...
...Passed the Kellogg-Briand Multilateral Treaty for the Renunciation of War as an Instrument of National Policy by a vote of 85 to 1 (two-thirds vote necessary); sent it to the President...
...treaty did not mean very much of anything anyhow. Meanwhile the fact remained that the treaty would, in all probability pass the Senate, and the prevailing opinion seemed to be that no reservations would be attached to it. Mr. Borah may come out, however, not so much with an instrument that "outlaws war" as with a guarded and general international announcement that war is an extremely deplorable weapon to be used only when a nation really feels it must...
...famed phrase originally coined in the Kellogg-Briand Peace Pact (TIME, July 30), is substantially repeated in the preamble of the Arbitration Pact wherein the signatories "condemn war as an instrument of national policy." But whereas the Kellogg-Briand Pact stops there, the Arbitration Pact of last week goes on to say that the signatories "adopt obligatory arbitration as the means for the settlement of their international differences. ..." This later pledge is the absolute heart and core of what was accomplished, last week, and is carefully elaborated in the treaty's nine articles, binding the nations firmly to arbitration...
...American State not a signatory of this Convention may adhere to the same by transmitting the official instrument setting forth such adherence to the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Chile, which will notify the other high contracting parties thereof in the manner heretofore mentioned...