Word: kellogg
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Debated, debated, debated the cruiser-building bill and the Kellogg-Briand peace treaty; postponed both measures until Jan. 3 when they will be the unfinished legislative and executive business, respectively...
Superficially this seemed to be score one for U. S. Secretary of State Frank Billings Kellogg, chairman of the Conference, over French Foreign Minister Aristide Briand, chairman of the League Council. The makers of the Briand-Kellogg pact outlawing war appeared to be cast in the roles of rival peace makers. Actually Messrs. Briand and Kellogg divided honors last week, with the meticulous noblesse oblige of two medieval knights cooperating to split a dragon or a hair...
...Hoover sent word to Secretary of State Kellogg, in Washington, that he wished to communicate with him directly over a special radiotelegraph hookup. Secretary Kellogg went to the State Department's telegraph room. Mr. Hoover stood near a key in the Buenos Aires embassy and dictated what he wanted to say. Secretary Kellogg read the messages as his operator typed them out. He dictated replies. The substance of the conversation was that Mr. Hoover was enjoying himself among courteous friends; that President Coolidge, Secretary Kellogg and the U.S. people were glad to hear it and thanked the friends, sent...
...hour approached when the Senate would say whether or not the Coolidge Era should be crowned by the Kellogg-Briand multilateral treaty-to-renounce-war-as-an-instrument-of-national-policy. As usually happens in the U.S. foreign relations, a group of Senators was seen forming to pass strictures. Their reasons ranged from the super-patriotism of New 'Hampshire's Moses to the wordy scorn of Maryland's Bruce, who called the treaty a "futile gesture" and an "anemic pact" for which he would vote only to move the U.S. closer to the World Court...
Acknowledge firm support of the Kellogg Peace Pact and of all future measures tending to reduce armaments without suggesting a "renunciation of war"; because, as someone shrewdly pointed out, there would remain "the possibility of a defensive...