Word: kellogg
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...signatures of three presidents, two emperors and a king were modestly but insistently besought, last week, by U. S. Secretary of State Frank Billings Kellogg...
...doing Mr. Kellogg at last gave a definite and constructive turn to the tedious correspondence which he has kept up on the subject of such a treaty with French Foreign Minister Aristide Briand (TIME, July 4, et seq,). Copies of the Briand-Kellogg correspondence were tactfully enclosed as background material by Secretary Kellogg in his notes to the Powers of last week. The whole point of the notes, however, was to submit to the Powers a tentative multilateral treaty text which is essentially Mr. Kellogg's own conception. Brief, this treaty text contains only three articles...
Foreign Minister Aristide Briand of France wants to sign a two-power treaty "outlawing war" between his country and the U. S. Secretary of State Frank Billings Kellogg insists that the treaty be a multi-power affair "renouncing war as an instrument of national policy." Out of the clash of these two concepts has come a nine-month long game of diplomatic bean bag (TIME, July 4, 1927). Last week M. Aristide Briand sent one more note to Washington from which it appeared that the French position is now, in substance, as follows...
...Washington last week Secretary Kellogg dourly intimated that all the French reservations could not be met, but added with an air of quiet determination that the State Department would proceed with the negotiations in a patient and conciliatory spirit...
...latest attempt to outlaw war put forward by Secretary Kellogg, the affair seems to have reached an impasse yet once again. France has joined with the United States with apparently reasonable conditions, though Britain. Germany, Italy, and Japan have still to be won over. But even the conditions, logical as they seem, are objected to by the United States. France now puts the whole onus of the affair on America. She stands by, with her safeguarding reservations, and watches until the other powers are brought into line...