Word: kellogg-briand
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...That "the United States should grant those guarantees of security which she herself has envisioned." This was understood to be a reference by M. Herriot to Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson's recent Manhattan speech in which he said: "Consultation between the signatories of the [Kellogg-Briand] Pact, when faced with the threat of its violation, becomes inevitable." Seemingly the Chamber thought that M. Herriot should get from the U. S. at least a promise to consult and also, if possible, a promise to take armed action against an aggressor state. Next day the State Department told Premier...
...with Associate Justice Roberts of the Supreme Court, Lawyer Rowell of Canada, Owen D. Young, President Frank Joseph Hogan of the District of Columbia Bar Association and one Washington Lilleston of Wichita, Kan. on the program. Justice Roberts stuck to Supreme Court history, Canada's Rowell to the Kellogg-Briand treaties. Mr. Young struck out characteristically into the future. Excerpts...
...There are those who argue as though the action of Japan were a violation of the Kellogg-Briand anti-war pact. But such contention has no foundation in fact. . . . The anti-war pact does not put restraint upon the exercise of the right of self-defense...
...First?The Kellogg-Briand pact, to which we are all signatories, can only mean that the nations of the world have agreed that they will use their arms solely for defense...
...giving a new face to the shattered Nine Power treaties, and thus as the only feasible method of deterring Japan from further violence. But President Lowell has attempted to look beyond immediate effects and to discover, if possible, its ultimate significance. With a well buttressed premise that the Kellogg-Briand Pact is not, strictly speaking, a treaty and that it authorizes no enforcement against refractory signatories, the article moves on to predict portentous effects of the Stimson letter upon international relations in the future. Instead of encouraging an immediate forceful alteration of unsatisfactory treaties, such a policy would lead...