Word: kelloggs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Danzig and the Sultanate of Morocco. If they were offended, they at least sat humbly among their lentils last week. But official Washington awoke to the fact that the jealous elder sisters were beginning to preen themselves on their accomplishment, in a way that may prove troublesome to Mr. Kellogg...
...least serious of the two cases is that of Danzig. The Treaty of Versailles established this Free City under the guardianship of the League of Nations. Poland has been trying, not unsuccessfully, to make Danzig Polish in everything but name. Poland objected to Danzig's signing the Kellogg treaty, and in the interests of keeping peace at his great peace party, Mr. Kellogg agreed that Danzig should not be invited. Diplomats who weigh fine points can and will interpret that as a U. S. acknowledgment of Poland's authority over Danzig...
...more important to the U. S., however, is what may come of Morocco's omission. Morocco was on Mr. Kellogg's invitation list and France said nothing. Everything was ready for the great ratification meeting. Mr. Kellogg was on the high seas bound for Paris. The whole world was waiting to see whether the unprecedented treaty would actually be signed, when the wireless began to crackle. It was the Quai d'Orsay saying that if France was to sign, Morocco must of course stay at home with her lentils. To save his treaty, to prevent his great...
That was all. But the Quai d'Orsay had in its despatch files Mr. Kellogg's consent to do as France wished in regard to Morocco. It was not literally an acknowledgment. But if France chooses to be subtle, as France usually chooses, the U. S. "open door" policy, for North Africa at least, is as good as dropped into the Seine...
...fitting of fangs to the Kellogg-Briand renunciation of war treaty-its toothless state having been remarked by many-was formally begun in the Senate by lean little Senator Capper of Kansas. He popped up with a resolution-doubt-less put in his hand by potent peace publicists-a resolution of large international implications. The idea involved was an ancient one-to get the nations to agree to lay a munitions embargo upon nations daring to violate the treaty...