Word: pact
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President Coolidge made known that he regards with favor the idea of a polyglot conference ("world gathering," "international parley," "pact ceremony," "peace rally") at Paris, before long, to sign the multilateral Kellogg treaty renouncing war "as an instrument of national policy...
...Sign an exclusive two-power pact renouncing war with France...
...carried this latter proposal personally from French Foreign Minister Aristide Briand to U. S. Secretary of State Kellogg (TIME, July 4). The refusal of Mr. Kellogg to sit down to diplomatic tea for two with M. Briand and his subsequent invitation to all nations to sign a multi-power pact has constituted one of the most distasteful rebuffs suffered by French diplomacy since...
...very moment when it offers Europe and all the nations of the world a pact renouncing war as an instrument of national policy the American government is engaged in operations in Nicaragua which many people, both in the United States and abroad, consider as a war. . . . This fact eloquently shows that a mere pact renouncing war (whatever that may mean) as an instrument of national policy (whatever that may mean) is not going to prevent a nation from undertaking operations which a considerable proportion of the world may be unable to discriminate from war. Something more is wanted...
Nothing more is wanted by Japanese Prime Minister Baron Giichi Tanaka, although he informed the U. S. State Department last week that the Japanese Government "take [the Kellogg pact] to imply the entire abolition of the institution of war, and they will be glad to render their most cordial cooperation toward the attainment of that...