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...There may be one European country, not yet a League member, which has increased its armaments while all others have decreased theirs.* Its signature is attached to the [Kellogg] Pact of Paris renouncing war of aggression, but I do not know that it has renounced another kind of warfare which some regarded as a holy war,† thinking they and they alone understand the truth which they desire to impose upon other countries...
...Kellogg had several items to declare. Most noteworthy were Irish winter underwear, Irish lace, Irish steamer rugs, a few Paris gowns, lingerie, perfume. Mr. Kellogg had less to declare but there was, of course, that gold pen which he received at Havre...
Secretary Kellogg greeted newsgatherers with the declaration that he hoped the Kellogg treaty would not be used by Republicans as propaganda in their presidential campaign...
Deliberations by the Assembly were principally confined to stereotyped laudations of the Kellogg Treaty by all hands, while everyone was preoccupied with the Müller-Briand parley over Rhineland Evacuation. Outstanding was the news that Spain, who, as everyone knows, has not always been too amicable to the League, had been elected to fill one of three nonpermanent vacancies in the council. Venezuela and Persia were elected simultaneously after the assembly refused to re-elect China...
Next Ben touched upon Peace and Disarmament, but not in such a way as to lose the sympathy of workers in munitions factories: "The Kellogg Treaty adds a bit," he said, "yes it adds a bit, but only a bit to that peace mentality that needs creating. . . . Disarmament touches the interests of the working class, but it might be cheaper to pension all those engaged in naval or military work than to let them continue unholy preparations...