Word: kellogg-briand
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...sharp rap over the knuckles. Legalist West argues that precisely the reverse is true; no law ever existed under which the leaders of one nation could punish the leaders of another for having murdered their own nationals, whereas "aggressive war as a crime was inherent in the Kellogg-Briand Pact." The Nuremberg trials were not only necessary and justified; they were an ambitious effort by "brave" men to restore an international sense of moral proportion. Author West believes stoutly that "it is only by making such efforts that we survive," but she also believes that this particular effort was bungled...
...whole area of current events. The Century, at various times, campaigned for the League of Nations, for prohibition, for NRA, for the rights of labor. Sometimes it campaigned itself into positions that many readers thought untenable (e.g., attempting to be both crusading and pacifist in support of the Kellogg-Briand Pact, the Century naively hoped that a pact to "outlaw" war could, in fact, outlaw it). But the Century's alertness, firmly backed by the principles of evangelical Christianity, never degenerated into sterile intellectualism; and whatever side it took, the Century always came up with a challenging case...
There it is. Gromyko is not talking about procedural technicalities, although he still tosses around glittering dust in the form of proposals to "outlaw" The Bomb (a la Kellogg-Briand...
...diplomats of the victorious Allies were assembled there in the graceful old Salon de 1'Horloge, with its five big windows overlooking the murky Seine, where in 1856 the Crimean War had come to an end, where Clemenceau had ratified the Treaty of Versailles, and where the Kellogg-Briand pact to outlaw war had been signed...
...deny that right. For the loser in a war, punishment was certain. But this was not a matter of law; it was simply a matter of course." In the wake of World War I, however, he continued, repeated efforts were made to outlaw war, "reaching their climax in the Kellogg-Briand Pact of 1928, in which 63 nations, including Germany, renounced aggressive warfare. During that period the whole world was one, [ but ] we lacked the courage to enforce the authoritative decision. . . . We did not reach the second half of the question: What will you do to an aggressor when...