Word: kellogg
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Yesterday the first real step towards unfillment of Secretary Kellogg's proposed treaty for the renunciation of war was taken when the British House of Lords adopted the resolution "that the proposals for the outlawry of war by the United States should have prompt and favorable consideration." Following France's suggestion that the United States sound out the powers on the question, this recommendation alters the proposal from a forlorn hope to a promising opportunity...
...Kellogg has allowed the European nations generous reservations and granted none to the United States. His "implied reservations" to the pledge to renounce war as an instrument of national policy include self-defense, violation of the treaty by any signatory, obligations of the League of Nations states arising from the League covenant, and the Locarno obligations. To offset these concessions Secretary Kellogg has asked no reservations for such a vital American policy as the Monroe Doctrine...
...arbitration treaty which he is negotiating Mr. Kellogg has excluded from arbitration the Doctrine. But in the war renunciation treaty in its present form the United States promises not to emplay war as an instrument of national policy, with no exception in reference to violations of the Monroe Doctrine. Not accepting arbitration in such a case, the United States would be shackled by its renunciation pledge and unable to resort to force except through the weak plea of self-defense, a plea which the unified League nations would probably oppose strongly...
...Berlin, it was predicted that Secretary Kellogg will get the Nobel Peace Prize...
...thus brewing, the foreign offices of these two "old friend" countries hastily devised a formula which would save faces all round. They proposed, unofficially, to the U. S. State Department that an international conference of jurists be called to draft the final Peace Pact text. To this proposal Secretary Kellogg returned an unofficial but emphatic "No!" Thus he shrewdly sought to force the Allied Powers to declare before public opinion whether or not they are ready to "renounce...