Word: kellogg
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...MacDonald quietly. Recalling that during his short previous term as Prime Minister in 1924 he sought to secure the peace of Europe by championing the Geneva Protocol (intended to "put teeth into the Covenant of the League"), he declared that "since 1924 we have started upon another road. The [Kellogg-Briand] Pact of Peace has been signed at Paris, and that pact is now the starting point of further work. ... To a certain extent the pact is still a castle in the air and the Assembly of the League is going to build up the foundations to support this castle...
Following up this line later in the week, British Foreign Secretary "Uncle Arthur" Henderson made a concrete proposal: that Articles XII and XV of the League Covenant?which envision recourse to arms among member states in certain circumstances?be amended into harmony with the Kellogg-Briand Pact renouncing war and strengthened to give the League Council greater war-scotching potency...
Secretary Stimson also recalled that Mr. Barlow once threatened to "bust on the nose" his predecessor, Frank Billings Kellogg, because that old gentleman did not seem interested enough in his case...
...projected naval reduction pact to be explicitly based on the obligation to disarm, implicit in the Kellogg Pact under which most of the nations of the world have already "renounced war as an instrument of national policy...
...William E. Rappard, onetime Director of the Permanent Mandates Commission, League of Nations, protested against the Kellogg Pact, objecting to "uncertainty as to what it prohibits and what it permits, the absence of any indication as to the nature of the 'pacific means' which are to be substituted for War, lack of any provision for violation...