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Master Stroke. Politically the Kellogg Treaty is an undoubted master stroke. Its existence will enable Candidate Hoover and other campaigning Republicans to point with pride to a resounding international achievement...
...words, three resounding words. They will be understood by many U. S. voters as meaning NO MORE WAR. If they should ever come to have that meaning to all the peoples of the World, the explanations, reservations and quibbles of statesmen will fall away like husks and Frank Billings Kellogg will have triumphed indeed...
Cruel is the possibility that the Kellogg Treaty may perhaps never be so much as ratified by the U. S. Senate-not to mention other skittish Senates...
Senator William Edgar Borah, Chairman of the U. S. Senate's Foreign Relations Committee was an early proponent of the concept of a treaty "outlawing war." Having lectured on the topic years before Secretary Kellogg took it up, he recently approved the present draft, saying: "The Multilateral anti-war Treaty, if signed this summer, will have right of way in the Senate next winter. ... I look for no serious fight against its ratification...
...Secretary Kellogg is perfectly right, and we ought to be astonished that we had to wait ten years for an expression of such simple, common sense truth in an official document. But Secretary Kellogg's proposal is only a generic beginning...