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...peoples of five Great Powers* received a clear though diplomatic warning, last week, that the French Republic has no intention of subscribing to the simple multilateral treaty "renouncing war" which was submitted to the Powers, last fortnight, by U. S. Secretary of State Frank Billings Kellogg (TIME, April 23). The French warning went to the Powers, in the form of an alternative treaty draft, proposed to take the place of the Kellogg Treaty. Inspection showed that Foreign Minister Briand of France had felt obliged to so qualify the expression "renouncing war" as to emasculate it of all meaning. The Briand...
...circumstances are that Frank Billings Kellogg has rather cleverly out-maneuvred Aristide Briand at a game of diplomatic chess which has been going on for nine months. M. Briand made the first move in good faith when he proposed to sign a treaty outlawing war simply between France and the U. S. (TIME, July...
Such a pact would not have conflicted with the numerous European alliances and commitments of France. But Mr. Kellogg countered with a proposal to make the treaty a multi-power affair. By insisting upon that point he has gradually forced
...Briand to admit, in effect, that France is bound by commitment, which obligates her to go to war under certain circumstances. Therefore she cannot sign the simple, blanket Kellogg Peace Pact. Doubtless most other foreign Powers are similarly circumstanced, and possibly even the U. S. Congress would refuse to bind the U. S. by the Kellogg formula. But meanwhile the U. S. Republican Party should reap political profit by forcing from as many foreign states as possible the admission that they must refuse for the present to sign a treaty "renouncing...
...multilateral treaty text to the Powers concerned. Should the fashion for drafting and bandying such texts spread to a third power, a fourth, a fifth, a sixth, the ensuing negotiations may well become a diplomatic cross word puzzle, titanic and inextricable. In an effort to scotch such confusion, Secretary Kellogg said in all his notes, last week...