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Undoubtedly there may be historians who will find the name of Frank Billings Kellogg brightest in 1929, for it was the year in which 57 nations signed the world-peace treaty with his name on it. But researchers and analysts could show that Mr. Kellogg did not originate the outlawing-war idea ; that a comparatively obscure lay figure named Salmon Oliver Levinson, Chicago lawyer, was invited to the White House the day the signatures were affixed in recognition of certain conversations he had had years prior with Senator Borah of Idaho and others...
...President Hoover's disarmament plan was first broached its two chief points were: 1) reduction, not mere limitation of armaments; and 2) reduction according to a mathematical formula, the "Hoover yardstick." Furthermore the principal achievement of Messrs. Hoover and MacDonald at Washington was their public joint statement exalting the Kellogg Pact as the cornerstone of peace and disarmament, and their private decision that the question of "freedom of the seas" should not be raised at the London conference...
...Kellogg, Arabian Horse Ranch...
...This assumption is no longer valid as regards states which are members of the League of Nations and parties to the Kellogg Pact. . . . In other words, as between members of the League there can be no neutral rights, because there can be no neutrals...
...British interpretation of the Kellogg Pact means that henceforth there shall be no neutrals," he boomed portentously, "it necessarily follows that we and all the other signatories become belligerents. Under these circumstances the pact is misnamed. It is not a peace pact. It is a war pact...