Word: kellogg-briand
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...that great catastrophe was to be abolished and replaced by something new. The Great Powers all had an interest in not repeating that descent into war. They would henceforth act together--"collective security"--against those who would breach the peace. Hence the League of Nations. Hence the celebrated Kellogg-Briand Pact of 1928 in which they all pledged to abolish war forever...
...World War I going by declaring war on everybody, and in August 1792 a Parisian mob stormed the Tuileries Palace. (That was before everybody started leaving Paris in August.) In August 1907 the first motorized taxicab made its appearance on the streets of New York; more violence still. The Kellogg-Briand Pact was signed on Aug. 27, 1928, without which there would be no world peace. Tony Bennett was born on Aug. 13, 1926, without which there would be no Tony Bennett...
...heart, the BBA mandates that, by the year 2002, the federal government will no longer spend more than it takes in. The Amendment does not, however, say what steps should be taken to get to that point. In this respect it calls to mind the failed Kellogg-Briand Pact. As the 1920s drew to a close, the major nations of the world signed the pact, which would forever "outlaw" the scourge of war from the world. As the outbreak of World War II a decade later showed, it obviously was not terribly effective...
...Trebek:"Kellogg-Briand. That's all I know...
...Ambrose: "Kellogg-Briand ((wrong)) ... No wonder they had to cheat. I doubt that there is a single historian in the U.S. who could get this...