Word: kellogg
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...State Department's activity this summer almost suggests that Secretary Frank Billings Kellogg functions best when the rest of the Government is, for the most part, away from Washington. Last week, with plans nearly matured for the multilateral treaty signing which is to crown his regime, Secretary Kellogg announced definite progress on the long-tangled China problem. In Nanking, a tariff treaty was signed by the U. S., granting de facto recognition to the Nationalist regime of the Chinese Republic (see p.23). The Navy Department prepared to withdraw from Chinese waters some of the 56 U. S. warboats...
...treaty negotiations, thanks to Secretary Kellogg's inaction, were used as a pretext by the pacifist lobby in Washington, last winter, to prevent action on the Cruiser bill...
...greatly admire the record of the Coolidge administration and we strongly approve its many sound and beneficent accomplishments; but the Kellogg treaty ... is certainly not one of them...
Secretary of State Frank Billings Kellogg thus savagely lashed upon the raw by the chief Administration news organ, remained silent for 48 hours, then allowed Washington correspondents to quote him indirectly as saying that the Treaty will not draw the U. S. into European affairs any more than have the various arbitration treaties existing between the U. S. and European states...
Parsons. But recent Sabbaths have brought comfort to Mr. Kellogg, for many a spiritual shepherd has told many a flock that the Treaty is something superlative...