Word: kellogg
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That night, there was a quiet dinner, the Coolidge's, the Machado's, the Kellogg's, the Hughes's and a few more. Next morning came the great event. President Coolidge went before the Pan-American Congress and to it addressed the following cautious, calculated sentiments...
First Stroke. M. Briand despatched to Mr. Kellogg a proposal that France and the U. S. should sign a two-power treaty perpetually "outlawing war" between their countries (TIME, July...
Second Stroke. Secretary Kellogg replied by despatching to Paris an alternative plan: 1) The treaty should not "outlaw war," but "renounce war as an instrument of national policy;"* and 2) The treaty should not be a two-power affair but a "multilateral compact" signed with the U.S. and France by all the Great Powers...
Third Stroke. Thus rebuffed, Foreign Minister Briand rebuffed back at Secretary Kellogg, last week, by "accepting in principle" the U. S. plan, but in such language that he virtually put forward a new and third proposal. He suggested that a treaty "renouncing aggressive warfare" between France and the U. S. should be signed at once, and that this document should be expanded and transfused, at some future date, into a general treaty among the Powers...
...Washington the State Department did not officially return the shuttlecock, last week, but Mr. Kellogg evinced displeasure and let it be known that the negotiations would probably have to begin anew from original premises. From Paris a spiteful imputation was hurled by Le Quotidien: "In America it would be fine for the election prospects of the Republican party if, after having overthrown the work of Woodrow Wilson, they could pose as the real founders of peace among nations. . . . But why should France play that game?" That is to say, France may prefer to work for universal peace through the League...