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...Debated, debated, debated the cruiser-building bill and the Kellogg-Briand peace treaty; postponed both measures until Jan. 3 when they will be the unfinished legislative and executive business, respectively...
Superficially this seemed to be score one for U. S. Secretary of State Frank Billings Kellogg, chairman of the Conference, over French Foreign Minister Aristide Briand, chairman of the League Council. The makers of the Briand-Kellogg pact outlawing war appeared to be cast in the roles of rival peace makers. Actually Messrs. Briand and Kellogg divided honors last week, with the meticulous noblesse oblige of two medieval knights cooperating to split a dragon or a hair...
Since the U. S. is not a League member state, there next arose the delicate question of how Aristide Briand might properly convey the good news from Bolivia to Frank Billings Kellogg. As French Foreign Minister, M. Briand could have addressed Mr. Kellogg in his capacity of Secretary of State; but as chairman of the League Council, M. Briand could not so address...
...Gordian Knot was cut when M. Briand summoned to his Paris office Norman Armour, Charge d'Affaires of the local U. S. embassy, and asked him to transmit a note from the League, not to Secretary of State Kellogg, but to Chairman Kellogg of the Pan-American Conference...
...hour approached when the Senate would say whether or not the Coolidge Era should be crowned by the Kellogg-Briand multilateral treaty-to-renounce-war-as-an-instrument-of-national-policy. As usually happens in the U.S. foreign relations, a group of Senators was seen forming to pass strictures. Their reasons ranged from the super-patriotism of New 'Hampshire's Moses to the wordy scorn of Maryland's Bruce, who called the treaty a "futile gesture" and an "anemic pact" for which he would vote only to move the U.S. closer to the World Court...