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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...international furore by implying that all but three of 20 points of difference between Britain and the U. S. on this question had been ironed out. What were the three points? Correspondents tried so hard to guess that they well nigh ignored a much more significant passage in which Mr. MacDonald said, "What we [Britain and the U.S.]want to get is an agreement which, having been made, can be a preliminary to the calling of a Five-Power Naval Conference, the other Powers being as free to put in their proposals and we being as free to negotiate with...
Repeatedly Mr. MacDonald told correspondents last week that he expected shortly to announce complete agreement with Ambassador Dawes, but in Washington the Administration distinctly cooled, and Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson snappishly observed: "It will still require a considerable period of hard work before an agreement ... is reached." An impression lingered that the Prime Minister had embarrassed the President by flaunting the fact that at the Five-Power Naval Conference (of which Mr. Hoover approves) it may happen that the whole Anglo-U. S. naval accord will be thrown into just the sort of European squabbling-pot so distasteful...
Arbitration Advance. The most concrete passage in Scot MacDonald's idealistic speech dealt with the so-called "Optional Clause" of the World Court protocol, signatories to which bind themselves to accept the arbitral jurisdiction of the Court in all legal disputes. Said Mr. MacDonald: "I am in a position to announce that my Government has decided to sign the optional clause. [Prolonged cheers from statesmen of the minor nations, most of which have signed.] The form of our declaration is now being prepared." Later Prime Minister Aristide Briand said that France, which has adhered with reservations to the Optional Clause...
...Briand-Kellogg Pact of Paris was evolved by Mr. Kellogg as a multilateral treaty among all nations from a suggestion by M. Briand that the U. S. and France sign a bilateral treaty outlawing war between themselves...
...probably never before been indulged in by a British statesman of first rank. They heard hot off the scathing, contemptuous tongue of Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden the inside story of The Hague Reparations Conference. Assumedly the King-Emperor was de- lighted, for he soon "commanded" Mr. & Mrs. Snowden to come to him at Sandringham, received them on the lawn, kept them overnight...