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Significance. In essence the Kellogg treaty text is simply a joint pledge of faith and honor. It does not state what, if anything, is to be done if one of the parties breaks faith. But it would prove useful in mobilizing public opinion against a faithless Power...
...signatures of three presidents, two emperors and a king were modestly but insistently besought, last week, by U. S. Secretary of State Frank Billings Kellogg...
...doing Mr. Kellogg at last gave a definite and constructive turn to the tedious correspondence which he has kept up on the subject of such a treaty with French Foreign Minister Aristide Briand (TIME, July 4, et seq,). Copies of the Briand-Kellogg correspondence were tactfully enclosed as background material by Secretary Kellogg in his notes to the Powers of last week. The whole point of the notes, however, was to submit to the Powers a tentative multilateral treaty text which is essentially Mr. Kellogg's own conception. Brief, this treaty text contains only three articles...
Quite ostentatiously the Kellogg text ignores the recent observation of M. Briand (TIME, April 9) that France will find it difficult if not impossible to sign a treaty which might conflict with her "previous obligations contained in international instruments, such as the Covenant of the League of Nations, the Locarno agreements or treaties guaranteeing neutrality." Mr. Kellogg now rather cleverly asks other powers whether they hold this view. Any reply which tends to indicate that the Powers are already committed to warlike sanctions in certain instances will be a feather in the Kellogg peace...
...Washington last week Secretary Kellogg dourly intimated that all the French reservations could not be met, but added with an air of quiet determination that the State Department would proceed with the negotiations in a patient and conciliatory spirit...