Word: pact
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...they must to all men of strong, successful growth, completion and fulfillment came, last week, to Secretary of State Frank Billings Kellogg. The boy from Potsdam, N. Y., and the St. Paul lawyer of national prestige- are now merged into the benign peace pact man, famed from Potsdam, Germany, to Rochester, Minn., where Mrs. Kellogg used to be shy Miss Clara Cook. As 20 nations signed two Pan-American peace pacts under the chairmanship of Secretary Kellogg (see INTERNATIONAL), and as the U. S. Senate seemed disposed to ratify the Kellogg-Briand pact (see SENATE), it could be fairly said...
Senator Hiram Johnson of California referred to the Spanish War, asked whether the U. S. could have gone to war over the Maine had the Kellogg Pact been in effect in 1898. Senator Borah replied that the U. S. could then have gone to war, since its ship had been blown up, its sailors killed...
...Pact Facts. The Arbitration and Conciliation pacts signed, last week, are distinct and separate, as appears from their names: i) The General Treaty of Inter-American Arbitration; and 2) The General Convention of Inter-American Conciliation...
...famed phrase originally coined in the Kellogg-Briand Peace Pact (TIME, July 30), is substantially repeated in the preamble of the Arbitration Pact wherein the signatories "condemn war as an instrument of national policy." But whereas the Kellogg-Briand Pact stops there, the Arbitration Pact of last week goes on to say that the signatories "adopt obligatory arbitration as the means for the settlement of their international differences. ..." This later pledge is the absolute heart and core of what was accomplished, last week, and is carefully elaborated in the treaty's nine articles, binding the nations firmly to arbitration...
...second or Conciliation Pact of last week binds the signatories to submit their differences?in advance of any open rupture or overt act requiring arbitration?to the good offices of one of two permanent Conciliation Commissions, established respectively in Montevideo, Uruguay, and at Washington, U. S. A. The Conciliation Pact runs to 16 articles and concludes...