Word: pact
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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These renewed exhibitions of good will toward other nations, coming in the same year with the Kellogg Peace Pact, lay foundations for the hope that the world, and the United States in particular, is recovering from the era of post-war materialism and is looking forward to a new ideal of international cooperation. A prime requisite of this is a comprehension of the other fellow's point of view. Such educational methods as exchange professorships and international fellowships are contributory factors whose value was recognized by Cecil Rhodes. The general success of his plan has given impetus to similar projects...
...interesting to note the strange case of Viscount Grey v. Baldwin's late Pact (as well-recorded in TIME, Nov. 19). There was a time when the Viscount (then Sir Edward and Foreign Sec't.) was himself a defendant in a similar action...
Limitation. Closely paralleling President Coolidge, the German Foreign Minister flayed Britain and France for concluding their now happily defunct Naval & Military Pact (TIME, Nov. 5 et ante). "If the two Powers had made such a pact really binding," he declared, "they would have violated the Locarno Treaty" (TIME, Oct. 26, 1925) whereby Great Britain pledged aid to Germany no less than France to preserve the peace of Europe...
Again paraphrasing President Coolidge, though in more vigorous language, Dr. Stresemann added: "It is cheap to sneer at the Kellogg Pact renouncing war. The Kellogg pact is what the governments and peoples themselves will make of it. I do not doubt that history will see in it an important advance toward better international relations...
...reports that President Calvin Coolidge had made up his mind to raise the tariff on corn and flaxseed. Vexed anew, last week, was President Irigoyen when the Independent El Diario of Buenos Aires issued a presumptuous statement that it expects the government to refuse to sign the Kellogg Peace Pact on the grounds that Argentina is "a traditionally peaceful country...